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the Roaring Trowmen

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We thought we'd show off a bit, and list how many songs we know. Turns out it's quite a few!  So thought we'd better do some homework and find out where they're all from. So see if you're favourites are here. If not, drop us a line and make a suggestion of a new one for us to learn :-)  New one's are being added all the time. Better keep this list updated........


Song Category Composer Date (approx.)
    If known, or 'Traditional'.  
A Seeking, Downalong Maritime Folk Jarvis-Stephens 2015
Aboard the Kangaroo Music hall song Harry Clifton 1856
All for me Grog Folk Song Trad. Unknown
All Things Must Pass Maritime Folk Jarvis-Stephens 2015
Barrett's Privateers Sea Song Stan Rogers 1976
Ben Backstay Sea Song Charles Dibdin ~1700's
Black Velvet Band Folk Song Traditional late 1800's
Blow the man Down Halyard Shanty Trad. 1820s
Blood Red Roses Halyard Shanty Trad. 1850s
Bonnie Ship the Diamond Sea song Trad. 1830s
Botany Bay Burlesque show song Stephens and Yardley 1850s
Brian The Optimistic Pilot Maritime Folk Jarvis-Stephens 2015
Bristol Channel Jamboree Capstan Shanty Trad. & Erik Illot 1860s
Cadgwith Anthem Maritime Folk Rev George Googenough 1906
Cape Cod Girls Capstan Shanty Trad. 1800
Chicken on a Raft Modern Shanty Cyril Tawney 1967
Don't Forget Your Old Shipmates Maritime Folk Trad. 1800-1810
Donkey Riding Maritime Folk Trad. 1857
Doodle Let Me Go Maritime Folk Trad 1914
Down Trinidad Cargo loading Shanty Trad. Barbados 1870s
Drop of Nelson Blood Stomp-and-go shanty Trad. Afro American 1850s
Drunken Sailor Stomp-and-go shanty Trad. Irish tune 1820s
Dundee Whalers Sea Song Trad. 1890's
Eliza Lee      
Fiddlers Green Ballad John Conolly 1966
Flaxen Shroud, The Maritime Folk Jarvis-Stephens 2015
Grey Funnel Line, The Folk Song Cyril Tawney 1959
Haul Away Joe      
Haul on the Bowline Short Drag Shanty Trad. 1600s
Hooker John Cotton-stower's shanty Trad. 1931
Huckleberry Hunting Pumping shanty Trad  
Itches in me Britches Folk song Trad 1800's
Jamestown Homeward Bound Sea Shanty Trad 1861-65
John B Sails Bahamian Folk Trad 1916
John Browns Daughter Capstan Shanty Trad. 1890
John Kanaka Halyard shanty Trad. 1927
Johnny Come Down To Hilo Capstan Shanty Trad. Afro American Unknown
Leave Her Johnny Pump Shanty Trad.  
Lowlands Away Capstan Shanty Trad 1862
Maid of Amsterdam Sea Shanty Trad. 1600s
Maid on the Shore Ballad Trad. / Arr. Stan Rogers 1977
Merry Fellows, The Ballad Trad. 1600's
Mingulay Boat Song Folk Song Sir Hugh S Robertson 1930's
Mobile Bay Sea Shanty Trad ??
Never Wed and Old Man Folk Song Trad ??
North Sea Ground Nautical poem Cicely Fox Smith Poem 1915, arr. 1998
Northwest Passage Maritime Folk Stan Rogers 1981
Paddy Lay Back Capstan Shanty Trad. Mid 1800s
Padstow's Farewell Farewell Shanty Trad (Mervyn Vincent) Nobody knows
Pay me the Money Down Deepwater Shanty Trad. 1800s
Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth Maritime Folk Trad (Fay Heild arrangement) 1880's earliest
Raglan Road Folk Song Patrick Cavanagh and Luke Kelly 1946 (poem) 1986 (released on an album as a song)
Randy Dandy O Capstan Shanty Trad 1800s
Rio Grande      
Robert Whitworth Maritime Folk Kimbers Men 1990's
Rolling Down The River Capstan Shanty Jack Forbes 1982
Rolling Down to Old Maui (Whaling) Sea Song Trad. 1858
Sacramento Capstan shanty Trad. 1860s
Sailing Over the Dogger Bank Fisherman Shanty Trad. 1890
Santy Anno Capstan shanty Trad. 1956
Seeking Down Along Maritime Folk Jarvis-Stephens 2015
Shallow Brown Pumping Shanty Trad. West Indian Unknown
Shenandoah American Folk Song Trad. 1800's
South Australia Outward Bounder Trad 1888 earliest mention
Spanish Ladies British Naval Ballad Trad. 1790s
Aul' Triangle, The Folk Song Dominic Behan 1954
Leaving of Liverpool, The Capstan Shanty Trad. 1870s
Man Who Hates Beer, The Folk Song Poxy Boggards 1990's
Parting Glass, The      
Three Score and Ten      
Tow Rope Girls Folk Song Cicely Fox Smith 1920
Walk Him Along Johnny Pulling Shanty Trad (Disc Sharp) 1914
Wild Goose Shanty Halyard Shanty Trad. Unknown

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