Songs by First Line
'Tis of a lusty female, and you must understand - Handsome Cabin Boy
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'Twas on the Longstone Lighthouse there dwelt an English maid - Grace Darling
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A drop of Nelson's blood wouldn't do us any harm - A Drop of Nelson's Blood
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A midshipman in Napoli - Lady Emma Hamilton
...78
A sailor’s life, it is a merry life - A Sailor's Life is a Merry Life
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Adieu, sweet lovely Nancy, ten thousand times adieu - Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy
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Aft on the Poopdeck - Strike The Bell
...143
All clouds the sky - All Clouds the Sky
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And it's home, boys, home! - Home, Boys, Home
...69
As I roved by the dockside one evening so rare - Fiddler's Green
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As I was a-walking one morning in June - Lady Leroy
...79
As I went walkin' down London Road, I come to Paddy West's house - Paddy West
...110
As my mother’s only daughter - Wayward Wife
...155
As we were a fishing off Happisburgh Light - Windy Old Weather
...164
Been to sea for a month or more - Round the Bay of Mexico
...125
Ben Backstay was a boatswain - Ben Backstay
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Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea - Bobby Shaftoe
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Cape Cod girls ain't got no combs - Cape Cod Girls
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Carry them home, home, home from the sea - Home from the Sea
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Come all you brave boys, whose courage is bold - A Copy of Verses... (Henry Every)
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Come all you fisher lassies, it’s come awa with me - Come All Ye Fisher Lassies
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Come all you true lovers attend for a while to a tale I am going to unfold! - Flora and James
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Come all you young fellows that follow the sea - Blow the Man Down
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Come listen awhile and you soon shall hear - Female Smuggler
...42
Come, all ye good people, and listen to my song - Female Sailor Bold
...41
Come, listen to the news - The Humane Society
...71
Cullercoats Sands are cold and bare - Hold the Lantern High
...67
Dark clouds are on the summer sky - Row on, row on
...127
Did you ever see the wild goose sailing on the ocean - Wild Goose Shanty
...162
Don't mind the rain or the rolling sea - Grey Funnel Line
...57
Essequibo River is the king of rivers all - Essequibo River
...38
Farewell and adieu to you Spanish ladies - Spanish Ladies
...142
Farewell my dear comrades, A pleasant adieu - The Blyth Sailor's Farewell
...19
Farewell to you my own true love - Leaving of Liverpool
...84
First the tale of a handsome girl as you may understand - Neither Maid nor Man
...100
From Boston harbour we set sail - Boston Harbour
...23
From Liverpool to Frisco a-roving I went - Liverpool Judies / Row, bullies, row
...88
General Taylor's dead and gone - General Taylor
...49
Haul on the bowlin', the bowlin' haul! - Haul on the Bowline
...62
Have you heard of a ship called the good Reuben James - The Sinking Of The Reuben James
...137
Have you heard the news, my Johnny - One More Day
...107
Here's the tender coming, pressing all the men - Here's the Tender Coming
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I am a man upon the land - Fragile Water
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I am a member of the council of the naval mutiny - The Colours
...30
I grew up as a girl in the fields of Kent - Salt Liberty - The Ballad of Mary Lacy
...129
I heard the R2-D2 Say - Ben Kenobi, Nobi
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I married John Coffin just two years ago - Sweet Mary Starbuck
...146
I once met a lass so fine - Pirate Chantey
...115
I once was a rigger and I worked like hell - Rolling Down The River / Tilbury Town
...123
I saw a ship a-sailing - I Saw a Ship A-Sailing
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I signed aboard a clipper ship to sail the ocean blue - Pretty Bird
...118
I thought I heard our captain say - Pay Me My Money Down
...113
I thought I heard the old man say - John the Slacker, Slacker
...74
I thought I heard the Old Man say - Leave her Johnny
...83
I used to be a tutor, and I made a living fine - The Last Oxonian Pirate
...81
I wish I was a cabin boy, aboard a Man O’War - Sam's Gone Away
...130
I'll sail and I'll sail and wherever I go - Trust in the Rolling Ocean
...152
I'll sing you a song, it's a song of the sea - Row me bully boys row
...126
I'm on me way down to the quay - Good Ship Ragamuffin / Shores of Botany Bay
...52
I've never sailed the Amazon - Rolling Down to Rio
...124
If I had the wings of a gull my boy - The Weary Whaling Grounds
...157
In Dublin’s fair city - Cockless with Muscles (Molly Malone)
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In eighteen hundred and forty-six - Greenland Whale Fishery
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In Frisco Bay there were three ships - Noah's Ark Shanty
...101
In midnight sleep, the sailor boy lay - The Mariner's Dream
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In my bag there is a knot - Maid Upon the Mountain
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In South Australia I was born - South Australia
...141
In the Belfast yard where she was made of Harland-Wolff design - Pride Of The White Star Line
...119
In the Black Ball line I served my time - Black Ball Line
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In this fading light the mainland - Liberty's Sweet Shore
...86
It was early, early all in a spring - Early, Early in the Spring / The Single Sailor
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It was pleasant and delightful on a midsummer’s morn - Pleasant and Delightful
...116
It's time to go now - Padstow Farewell
...111
Keep hauling, keep hauling - Keep Hauling
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Kind friends and companions come join me in rhyme - Health to the Company
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Let me tell you, my friends, of a woman named Jeanne / Ecoutez braves gens les aventures de Jeanne - Jeanne de Clisson (la belle dame sans merci)
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Lift him up and carry him along - Fire Marengo
...45
Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar - The Skye Boat song
...138
Louis was the king of France - Haul Away Joe
...61
Make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again - The Mary Ellen Carter
...93
Methinks I see a host of craft - Three Score And Ten
...149
My bonny silver herring - The Three Jolly Fishermen (While The Merry Merry Bells Do Ring)
...148
My Johnny Is An Activist - My Johnny Is An Activist
...98
My mother told me - My Mother Told Me
...99
My soul has been torn from me and I am bleeding - The Last Leviathan
...80
Now in sailor’s clothes Granuaile did go - Grace O'Malley
...54
Now it’s three long years since we made her pay - The Final Trawl
...44
Now we are ready to head for the horn, - Rollickin' Randy Dandy O
...122
O shipmates as you lay sleeping - The Anchor Watch
...8
Oh my name is De Clisson, no sailor am I - Paint my sails red (Docks Shanty)
...112
Oh the weary cutters, they’ve taken my laddie from me - The Weary Cutters
...156
Oh the whale is free of the boundless sea - The King of the Southern Sea
...77
Oh wild and furious blew the blast - Wreck of the Dandenong
...165
Oh, a ship in the Tropics, a-foaming along - Towrope Girls
...151
Oh, it was a fine and a pleasant day - The Shoals of Herring
...134
Oh, the smartest packet you can find, - Let the Bulgine Run
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Oh, the year was 1778 - Barrett's Privateers
...12
Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers? - Big Steamers
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On a fine summer's morning as we lay at the quay - Honour and Praise
...70
On the transatlantic routes, when you’re lacing up your boots - The Shoelace Shanty
...135
Once there was a barge lad - Barge Ballad
...11
One old man come a rolling down the river - Old Jack Jones
...104
Our anchor's aweigh and our sails are set - Bold Riley
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Our boots and clothes is all in pawn - Blood Red Roses
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Our captain cried all hands we sail tomorrow - Our captain cried all hands / Fountains Flowing
...108
Our ship is a-sailing out over the Bar - Rio Grande
...120
Poor men walk while rich men ride - Monkey in the Hold
...97
Pour retrouver ma douce amie / For to find my lost true-love - Pique la Baleine
...114
Safe and sound at home again - Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate
...35
Sally is the girl that I love dearly - Bully In the Alley
...25
Salt fare, North Sea - Some Old Salty
...140
Some rows up - Shawneetown
...131
Stowing sugar in the hold below - Sugar in the Hold
...144
Sunset and evening star - Crossing the Bar
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Sweet ladies of Plymouth, we’re saying goodbye - Sweet Ladies of Plymouth
...145
That day there was a great demand for sailors - Paddy Lay Back
...109
The boats are sailing round the bay - Bye-bye my Roseanna
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The cannery shed perches over the river - Cannery Shed (Stella)
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The Diamond is a ship, my lads - The Bonnie Ship the Diamond
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The herring is the king of the sea - Herring's Head
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The Navy would never have a lass at sea - Away Santianna
...9
The water is wide, I cannot cross o'er - The Water is Wide
...154
There once was a ship that put to sea - Wellerman / Soon may the Wellerman come
...158
There was a fair maid and she lived all alone - Maid on the Shore
...90
There were three men of Bristol City - Little Boy Billy
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There were two lofty ships from old England came - High Barbary
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There's a song in my heart for the one I love best - Yea Ho Little Fishes
...167
They call me hanging Johnny - Hanging Johnny 2
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They call me hanging Johnny - Hanging Johnny
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They came in the night and their ships were as black as the ocean - The Shores of Hispaniola
...136
They say, old man, your horse will die - Poor Old Horse
...117
To Cuba’s coast we’re bound me boys - Running Down To Cuba
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To old Callio we are bound to go - Old Callio
...103
Tommy’s gone, and I’ll Go too - Tom's Gone To Hilo
...150
We all got drunk in Dublin city - Fall Down Billy O'Shea
...39
We are outward bound for Kingston town - Good Morning Ladies All
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We come on the sloop John B - The Sloop John B
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We think she stole Black Caesar's rig - The Ballad of Anne Bonny
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Well me father often told me when I was just a lad - The Last Shanty
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Well met, well met, my own true love, well met, well met," cried he - Demon Lover / The House Carpenter
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Westward from the Davis Strait 'tis there 'twas said to lie - The Northwest Passage
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What care we though, white the Minch is? - Mingulay Boat Song
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What mired Jonah’s creature - Rise No More
...121
What shall we do with the Patriarchy? - What shall we do with the Patriarchy?
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When first I landed in Liverpool, I went upon a spree - Go To Sea No More
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When I was a fair maid about seventeen - When I was a fair maid / Run the Riggin' Again
...160
When I was just a young man - This Dreadful Life
...147
Where are my boots, my nogging, nogging boots? - All For Me Grog
...7
Willie Taylor and his youthful lover - Willie Taylor
...163
Ye mariners all, as ye pass by - Ye Mariners All
...166
You shall have a fishie, you shall have a fin - Dance to your Daddy
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Young Susan was a blooming maid, so valiant, true and bold - Young Susan on Board of a Man-of-War
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Your great grey back seems so peaceful in the ocean - Great Grey Back
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