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#Off to sea once more lyrics plus#

Plus on other labels in France, Australia and the USA. These recordings have been issued several times on Topic, Corbett: The Singing Sailor Mainly Norfolk: English It's past midnight here, and a number of wooden schooners have been gathering in the harbor for events this weekend, so I'm planning to do some busking on the quay tomorrow.įor what it's worth, when I do accompany myself, it will only be on English concertina.Ewan MacColl, A.L. My perspective disagrees with many of the things you've said here, but I'll have to elaborate on that later. but just some how not correct.Īt any rate, im no expert, so hopefully the real tunes can chime in but the duet and english are more like open guitar tunings. chords just sound *right* and *normal* on the anglo. The anglo has huge capacity for music in a very concertina sort of way.Īnglo is like your standard guitar tuning. The anglo sounds fantastic even if you only have a mediocore music talent. and sound terrible unless the people know what they are doing. From what i gather so far (and keep in mind, i just want to play solo)Īnglo is good for inherit rhythm and harmony.ĭuet, and to a lesser extent english are for musicians that just have a natural brain capacity for it.

Im struggling to choose what style of concertina too. Most modern or contemporary "sailor" songs should be classed as forebitters, not shanties, but that does mean that they're suitable for whatever interpretation and accompaniment the singer or his/her companions feel like adding. Chording and harmonies were improvised and took whatever form(s) the instrumentalists felt like playing. These might be accompanied on whatever instruments - if any - happened to be available.

"Forebitters" is a name commonly given to songs sung by sailors when they were not working (when they would gather around the "forebitts" for shared entertainment).

If I encounter an audience that doesn't sing along, I will sometimes attempt to simulate the presence of more voices by adding harmony lines on the concertina, but I do not use rhythmic chording. I never accompany real shanties if I have an audience that will sing on the chorus parts that the working sailors would sing. Also, the work itself involved pushes and pulls, not sharp blows, so sharply rhythmic chording will give a song a feeling very different from when it's used as an actual shanty.

True shanties were work songs and were never accompanied by an instrument, since that would be a pair of hands not available for doing the work.

Strictly speaking, not all "sea songs" are "shanties", no more than all "classical" music is "opera".

John Connolly would be rich if he were to receive all the royalties that he's legally entitled to.)Ī brief word about shanties and forebitters:

( Fiddler's Green is just one of many, one which has become so popular that it is more often published as "traditional" than with credit to its author. What it doesn't have is songs that have been composed since the days of the windjammers. Stan's book has the music and words to traditional shanties and forebitters, both from his own experience as a shantyman and from other collectors.

It has music for 200+ shanties (and much more), but not the chords. My copy is a reprint from Mystic Seaport, 2014, ISBN: 0-91 - cost me 30squids Coovers book, you could try and track down a copy of Shanties from the Seven Seas by Stan Hugill. What I would really like is one that shows both notes and chords. I want to learn to play sea shanties.I can find the lyrics, but I can't find the music.