[PDF] Real Sailor Songs Songbook eBook

Author : John Ashton
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230059471

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...as the more the Storm increased, It gave them more room to guess, That some Ship upon the Ocean, Was in sad and deep Distress. We saw floating, some Days after, Some spare yards were drove on Shore, On which was the Name Victory, This gave us suspicion more: That the noble Ship was stranded On the Gaskets, was our fear, Long we waited with Impatience, But no News of them could hear. To this fatal Tragedy, The brave gallant Admiral Balchen With fourteen hundred Men beside, If she's lost, went to the Bottom, And all at once together died: Oh! the dismal grief and Horror, If one had been there to see, How they all were struck with Horror, When sunk down the Victory. O! the sad and dismal Story, I'm griev'd when I the same relate, So many blasted in their Glory, And at once shared the same fate: Some thinking on their Wives and Children, And some on their Parents dear, Sunk to the Bottom in a Moment, And no Time to say a prayer. O Victory! thou wast unlucky, But once before was out at Sea, In the Night run foul of the Lion, And her Carved-work took away: Now thou art gone to the Bottom, With a jovial Company, An Admiral, Marines and Sailors, Most Unhappy Victory! The Distressed Sailors Hen first I drew the breath of life, 'Twas in the merry month of June, The fourteenth day, as I am told, When flowers they were in their bloom: It was in Seventeen hundred and five, That was the very date of the year, Myparents did for me provide, The best of learning I declare. When I grew up, they asked me What trade must we prepare for thee? My answer was to them again, I mean to range the roaring sea: My whimsical brain did falsely show The pleasures men enjoy at sea, But oh! the sorrow, grief and woe, They suffer in extremity. If there be pleasure on the...

Author : Stan Hugill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1493068288

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This book contains not only more than 400 sea shanties but as much of their history as Stan Hugill could collect in his extraordinary career as sailor, scholar, author, artist, and inspiration to new generations of sea-music enthusiasts and performers.

Author : Barry Leonard
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 1998-12
Category : Patriotic music
ISBN : 0788174681

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This fascinating collection of vintage songs contains the words and music to over 100 Navy, armed forces, patriotic, holiday and seasonal, international folk, and popular songs. The selections include: Anchors Aweigh, Navy Victory March, Song of the Seabees, Waves of the Navy, Star Spangled Banner, Yankee Doodle, Dixie, Marine's Hymn, Army Goes Rolling Along, Home on the Range, My Buddy, Auld Lang Syne, Goodnight Ladies, Red River Valley, White Christmas, Easter Parade, Londonderry Air, Santa Lucia, Waltzing Matilda, and many more. Includes a table of commonly used chords and a tuning chart for guitar and ukulele.

Author : Ben Gitty Baker
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2021-08-09
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ISBN :

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THE BEST TRADITIONAL SEA SHANTIES AND SONGS OF THE SEA DESIGNED FOR BEGINNERS AND INTERMEDIATE PLAYERS ALIKE EASY-TO-READ TABLATURE - You don't need to know how to read music! PLAY THESE SONGS ON ANY MANDOLIN-FAMILY INSTRUMENT tuned GDAE Here is the latest tablature songbook from master songsmith Ben "Gitty" Baker, containing over 300 pages and including new arrangements of 52 traditional sea songs and shanties laid out just for mandolin and more! With his easy-to-follow song presentations, Ben shows you that it's not hard at all to pick these great old tunes on your mandolin, Irish tenor banjo, tenor guitar, fiddle and more! This new songbook features the author's tried-and-true arrangement presentation, which includes easy-to-read tablature as well as lyrics and chords. He also includes written lessons (with photos and diagrams) on how to read tablature and chord forms, and how to apply that knowledge to playing the songs. Multiple arrangements of each song are included (basic melody and melody+chords), and all of the songs are presented in two different keys (C and G). So grab your mandolin and get ready to make some music! Here is a sampling of the songs included in this book: All For Me Grog, Blood Red Roses, Blow the Man Down, Bonnie Ship the Diamond, Bully In the Alley, The Coast Of High Barbary, Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate, Farewell To Nova Scotia, Go To Sea No More, Haul Away Joe, The Holy Ground, Homeward Bound, The Irish Rover, The John B. Sails, Leave Her Johnny, Leave Her, The Leaving Of Liverpool, Lowlands, Low, The Mermaid, The Morning Glory, Paddy Doyle's Boots, Paddy West, Rolling Down To Old Maui, Rolling Home, Roll the Old Chariot Along, Sally Brown, Shenandoah, South Australia, Spanish Ladies, The Wellerman, What Do We Do With A Drunken Sailor, Whiskey Is the Life Of Man

Author : Karen Dolby
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1789293774

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A rousing collection of the most memorable and feel-good shanties in maritime history.