Favorite Nautical Tune

**7eat51** · 02-20-2014, 06:11

Originally Posted by KeithS

I'd like to put a mention in for a recent phenomenon in the UK The Fisherman's Friends

Keith, I don't know how I missed this post, but thank you for posting again today. Absolutely great.

I agree with Ed, very pleasing to the ears. I'll definitely be looking for a CD.

**Пилот** · 02-20-2014, 11:23

Fisherman's

Nice song!

**John Paul** · 02-21-2014, 01:19

I'm also partial to "Spanish Ladies", which has one verse sung during the evening jaunt in Master & Commander!!

**BootYourFace** · 03-05-2014, 20:31

Here's something from Canada!

Barrett's Privateers - Real McKenzies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teKGPxr86ME

I rather like this version, but I may be bias as I like The Real McKenzies. Originally written by Stan Rogers, tells the story of the only survivor of an ill-fated journey for American gold during the American Revolution.

Other than that, Heart of Oak! Was surprised it wasn't mentioned! (though I might have missed that!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NXFCDgyanA

**Naharaht** · 06-13-2014, 14:54

Here is another nautical theme from a well known BBC children's programme.

**Pappy Liam** · 08-09-2014, 23:38

Here is one of ours:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LangKMh9wuU

**Gunner** · 08-10-2014, 00:14

Originally Posted by Pappy Liam

Here is one of ours:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LangKMh9wuU

That was pretty good

. Which one are you?

**Pappy Liam** · 08-10-2014, 00:47

I am the drummer ion the front of the stage

**Gunner** · 08-10-2014, 01:14

Great job. It's always nice to see who you are talking to

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**Pappy Liam** · 12-09-2014, 15:13

Here's one for ya,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQIQkzJ__38

This is of course not us but here is the website of my group.

www.seadogs.org

**7eat51** · 12-09-2014, 18:58

That's great, Leigh. I was out for coffee with one of my students this afternoon. I told him to watch Waiting for Guffman over break. All, but the last film, in this series were great.

There was abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. - Terry Bohner

**7eat51** · 12-09-2014, 19:03

How long have you been with the Seadogs, Leigh? Looks quite fun.

**Bolithio** · 12-09-2014, 19:57

This is in my playlist right now:

**Kentop** · 12-10-2014, 11:14

All these postings and not one mention of the sailor's hornpipe, the most well known and beloved sea shanty ever written? Shame on you lubbers.

http://youtu.be/wZnykEu0nW8

**Union Jack** · 12-10-2014, 15:28

Of course you can't forget the blessed anthem:

https://uk.search.yahoo.com/yhs/sear...rts%20of%20oak

**Union Jack** · 12-10-2014, 15:30

and don't forget:

https://uk.search.yahoo.com/yhs/sear...ype=blfnt_1127

**Union Jack** · 12-10-2014, 15:30

https://uk.search.yahoo.com/yhs/sear...ype=blfnt_1127

**Bolithio** · 12-10-2014, 16:27

Any Nova Scotia for ye? The Real McKenzie's do a good version of this as well...

...just noticed BootYourFace's posts above... 10,000 shots my friend~

**Bolithio** · 12-10-2014, 16:39

OK, one more, I finally found it. This is my all time favorite sailing song, especially for this genre and will be in the playlist every night I play SOG!

The first broadside we gave to them which made them cause to wonder
Her rigging and her mainmast came rattling down like thunder
we drove them from their quarter, they could no longer stay
Our guns did roar! We made quite sure we showed them British play!

**Gunner** · 12-10-2014, 17:16

Originally Posted by Bolithio

Any Nova Scotia for ye? The Real McKenzie's do a good version of this as well.

Thanks Bolithio. One of the best I've heard. Will use it when I play a sloop action.(or when I have a schooner)

**Ozariig** · 12-30-2014, 11:58

I'm a Stan Rogers fan, so I can't help but post another of his songs:

**Pappy Liam** · 12-31-2014, 03:38

I have been with them for about 12 years now. We perform at Renaissance fairs and the ths Dickens Christmas fair in San francisco. We also have our own Pirate festival in June.
http://www.norcalpiratefestival.com/

**Pappy Liam** · 12-31-2014, 03:42

My favorite Stan Rodgers is NorthWest Passage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI

**Bligh** · 06-24-2015, 02:20

I may have missed this one somewhere whilst reading these posts but my favourite is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=669minzpICI

Bligh.

**MWBell** · 08-23-2016, 10:36

Ahoy, Mates!

It's been a while since I've been on, but I just saw this poll and had to add my 2 cents worth. I also add the following link for your enjoyment ...

https://youtu.be/sGWs1HK8iDU

If somebody's already posted this, I'm sorry for the redundancy.

Mike

**Bligh** · 08-23-2016, 11:54

No problem Michael.
It is always to revisit these old songs.
Quite a few new members may not have found them and I have never listened to them all myself.
Just keep dipping in now and then.
Rob.

**Bligh** · 02-17-2017, 03:15

Felt it time that we added to our list here.
One you can sing as your Favorite shipmate gets his from an unlucky chit draw.

The Legend of Fiddlers Green.

It is often said that when a sailor wishes to leave the sea, he should - walk inland with an oar over his shoulder, until he comes to a place deep in the country, when the villagers ask - 'what it is he's carrying...' Only then will he have reached the place that the bards, yarn tellers and fiddlers sing about.

It is a place where the people, will sit him outside the Village Inn with a glass of grog, a pipe forever filled with fragrant tobacco and from where he can watch the maidens dancing on the Green.

In this song it is a dying sailor who casts his imagination to that elysian utopia.
Research suggests that the phrase 'Fiddler's Green' dates back to well before 1825, concurrent to the time when a song or story of this description was first known. It also has connections with the Irish music tradition, and it is in those traditions that the song given here was written or re-crafted by John Connolly in the 1960's.
To put the situation to the right, The fiddler in this story is not one who plays the violin, but he that is adept in the use of the 'fid', a spiky instrument found on the side of seaman's knives, the thing that is often said to be used to extract stones from horses hooves, but in reality is used to open the lay of a rope so that a splice can be made.
Larger examples are sometimes referred to a as marlinespike.

As I roved to the dockside one evening so fair
To view the salt water and take in the salt air
I heard an old Sailor a-singing this song
Oh, take me away boys, me time is not long.

Wrap me up in me oilskin and blankets
No more on the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates, I'm taking a trip mates
And I'll see you someday on Fiddlers Green".

Now Fiddler's Green is a place I've heard tell
Where the sailors all go if they don't go to hell,
Where the weather is fine and the dolphins do play
And the cold northern oceans are far, far away.

CHORUS

Now when you hang up your oar and the long trip is through
There's pubs and there's clubs and there's lassies there too
And the girls are all pretty and the beer is all free
And there's bottles of rum grow'n on every tree.

CHORUS

Where the skies are all clear and there's never a gale
And the fish jump on board with one swish of their tail,
Where you lie at your leisure, there's no work to do
And the skipper's below making tea for the crew.

CHORUS

Now I don't want a harp nor a halo, - NOT ME
Just give me a breeze and a good rolling sea
I will sing and I'll dance as we sail along
With the wind in the riggin to sing me a song.

CHORUS

As I roved to the dockside one evening so rare,
To view the still waters and take the salt air,
I heard an old Sailor a-singing this song:
"Oh, take me away, boys, my time is not long.

Wrap me up in me oilskin and blankets
No more on the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates, I'm taking a trip mates
And I'll see you someday on Fiddlers Green".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zviVCHO2_8k

Bligh.