View Poll Results: What's your favorite sea ditty?

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  • Blow the Man Down

    12 16.90%
  • Drunken Sailor

    40 56.34%
  • In the Navy

    10 14.08%
  • Beyond the Sea

    7 9.86%
  • Das Leibe Schiff

    2 2.82%
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  1. #101
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    Quote Originally Posted by KeithS View Post
    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.

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    Nice song!

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

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    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

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

    Last edited by Naharaht; 07-07-2017 at 17:49.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pappy Liam View Post
    That was pretty good. Which one are you?

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    I am the drummer ion the front of the stage

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

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    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
    Fair Winds and a following sea.

    Pappy Liam

    "We are men of action, lies do not become us."
    Westley in The Princess Bride

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    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
    “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” ― Plato

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    How long have you been with the Seadogs, Leigh? Looks quite fun.
    “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” ― Plato

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    This is in my playlist right now:


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    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

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    Of course you can't forget the blessed anthem:

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

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    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~
    Last edited by Bolithio; 12-10-2014 at 22:09.

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    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!



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    Quote Originally Posted by Bolithio View Post
    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)

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


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    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/
    Fair Winds and a following sea.

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    My favorite Stan Rodgers is NorthWest Passage.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI
    Fair Winds and a following sea.

    Pappy Liam

    "We are men of action, lies do not become us."
    Westley in The Princess Bride

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

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

    Bligh.

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    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

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    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.

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    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.


    The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

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    I voted but would have voted for the theme tune from Captain Pugwash. The very first maritime programme I watched all those years ago.

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    Must have made a big impact on you then Neil.
    "Tom just smiled."
    Rob.
    The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

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    Although I voted for the "Drunken Sailor" The song I like best is the "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Union Jack View Post
    I voted but would have voted for the theme tune from Captain Pugwash. The very first maritime programme I watched all those years ago.
    Here you go Neil.

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

    Rob.
    The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

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    After watching 6 episodes I'm hooked (again). Like being a 5 year old....again.

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    I was still watching it when I was 9 Neil.
    Rob.
    The Business of the commander-in-chief is first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.

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    I used to watch this series when I was much younger.

    "And now.."


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