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
...76
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
...139
All clouds the sky - All Clouds the Sky
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And it's home, boys, home! - Home, Boys, Home
...68
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
...77
As I went walkin' down London Road, I come to Paddy West's house - Paddy West
...108
As my mother’s only daughter - Wayward Wife
...151
As we were a fishing off Happisburgh Light - Windy Old Weather
...160
Been to sea for a month or more - Round the Bay of Mexico
...122
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
...28
Carry them home, home, home from the sea - Home from the Sea
...67
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
...31
Come all you true lovers attend for a while to a tale I am going to unfold! - Flora and James
...47
Come all you young fellows that follow the sea - Blow the Man Down
...18
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
...69
Cullercoats Sands are cold and bare - Hold the Lantern High
...66
Dark clouds are on the summer sky - Row on, row on
...124
Did you ever see the wild goose sailing on the ocean - Wild Goose Shanty
...158
Don't mind the rain or the rolling sea - Grey Funnel Line
...56
Essequibo River is the king of rivers all - Essequibo River
...38
Farewell and adieu to you Spanish ladies - Spanish Ladies
...138
Farewell my dear comrades, A pleasant adieu - The Blyth Sailor's Farewell
...19
Farewell to you my own true love - Leaving of Liverpool
...82
First the tale of a handsome girl as you may understand - Neither Maid nor Man
...98
From Boston harbour we set sail - Boston Harbour
...23
From Liverpool to Frisco a-roving I went - Liverpool Judies / Row, bullies, row
...86
General Taylor's dead and gone - General Taylor
...49
Haul on the bowlin', the bowlin' haul! - Haul on the Bowline
...61
Have you heard the news, my Johnny - One More Day
...105
Here's the tender coming, pressing all the men - Here's the Tender Coming
...63
I am a man upon the land - Fragile Water
...48
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
...126
I heard the R2-D2 Say - Ben Kenobi, Nobi
...14
I married John Coffin just two years ago - Sweet Mary Starbuck
...142
I once met a lass so fine - Pirate Chantey
...113
I once was a rigger and I worked like hell - Rolling Down The River / Tilbury Town
...120
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
...116
I thought I heard our captain say - Pay Me My Money Down
...111
I thought I heard the old man say - John the Slacker, Slacker
...72
I thought I heard the Old Man say - Leave her Johnny
...81
I used to be a tutor, and I made a living fine - The Last Oxonian Pirate
...79
I wish I was a cabin boy, aboard a Man O’War - Sam's Gone Away
...127
I'll sail and I'll sail and wherever I go - Trust in the Rolling Ocean
...148
I'll sing you a song, it's a song of the sea - Row me bully boys row
...123
I've never sailed the Amazon - Rolling Down to Rio
...121
If I had the wings of a gull my boy - The Weary Whaling Grounds
...153
In Dublin’s fair city - Cockless with Muscles (Molly Malone)
...29
In eighteen hundred and forty-six - Greenland Whale Fishery
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In Frisco Bay there were three ships - Noah's Ark Shanty
...99
In midnight sleep, the sailor boy lay - The Mariner's Dream
...90
In my bag there is a knot - Maid Upon the Mountain
...89
In South Australia I was born - South Australia
...137
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
...84
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
...114
It's time to go now - Padstow Farewell
...109
Keep hauling, keep hauling - Keep Hauling
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Kind friends and companions come join me in rhyme - Health to the Company
...62
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)
...71
Lift him up and carry him along - Fire Marengo
...45
Loud the winds howl, loud the waves roar - The Skye Boat song
...134
Louis was the king of France - Haul Away Joe
...60
Make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again - The Mary Ellen Carter
...91
Methinks I see a host of craft - Three Score And Ten
...145
My bonny silver herring - The Three Jolly Fishermen (While The Merry Merry Bells Do Ring)
...144
My Johnny Is An Activist - My Johnny Is An Activist
...96
My mother told me - My Mother Told Me
...97
My soul has been torn from me and I am bleeding - The Last Leviathan
...78
Now in sailor’s clothes Granuaile did go - Grace O'Malley
...53
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
...119
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)
...110
Oh the weary cutters, they’ve taken my laddie from me - The Weary Cutters
...152
Oh the whale is free of the boundless sea - The King of the Southern Sea
...75
Oh wild and furious blew the blast - Wreck of the Dandenong
...161
Oh, a ship in the Tropics, a-foaming along - Towrope Girls
...147
Oh, it was a fine and a pleasant day - The Shoals of Herring
...131
Oh, the smartest packet you can find, - Let the Bulgine Run
...83
Oh, the year was 1778 - Barrett's Privateers
...12
Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers? - Big Steamers
...15
On the transatlantic routes, when you’re lacing up your boots - The Shoelace Shanty
...132
Once there was a barge lad - Barge Ballad
...11
One old man come a rolling down the river - Old Jack Jones
...102
Our anchor's aweigh and our sails are set - Bold Riley
...21
Our boots and clothes is all in pawn - Blood Red Roses
...17
Our captain cried all hands we sail tomorrow - Our captain cried all hands / Fountains Flowing
...106
Our ship is a-sailing out over the Bar - Rio Grande
...117
Poor men walk while rich men ride - Monkey in the Hold
...95
Pour retrouver ma douce amie - Pique la Baleine
...112
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
...136
Some rows up - Shawneetown
...128
Stowing sugar in the hold below - Sugar in the Hold
...140
Sunset and evening star - Crossing the Bar
...32
Sweet ladies of Plymouth, we’re saying goodbye - Sweet Ladies of Plymouth
...141
That day there was a great demand for sailors - Paddy Lay Back
...107
The boats are sailing round the bay - Bye-bye my Roseanna
...26
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
...150
There once was a ship that put to sea - Wellerman / Soon may the Wellerman come
...154
There was a fair maid and she lived all alone - Maid on the Shore
...88
There were three men of Bristol City - Little Boy Billy
...85
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
...163
They call me hanging Johnny - Hanging Johnny
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They call me hanging Johnny - Hanging Johnny 2
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They came in the night and their ships were as black as the ocean - The Shores of Hispaniola
...133
They say, old man, your horse will die - Poor Old Horse
...115
To Cuba’s coast we’re bound me boys - Running Down To Cuba
...125
To old Callio we are bound to go - Old Callio
...101
Tommy’s gone, and I’ll Go too - Tom's Gone To Hilo
...146
We all got drunk in Dublin city - Fall Down Billy O'Shea
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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
...80
Well met, well met, my own true love, well met, well met," cried he - Demon Lover / The House Carpenter
...34
Westward from the Davis Strait 'tis there 'twas said to lie - The Northwest Passage
...100
What care we though, white the Minch is? - Mingulay Boat Song
...93
What mired Jonah’s creature - Rise No More
...118
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
...156
When I was just a young man - This Dreadful Life
...143
Where are my boots, my nogging, nogging boots? - All For Me Grog
...7
Willie Taylor and his youthful lover - Willie Taylor
...159
Ye mariners all, as ye pass by - Ye Mariners All
...162
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
...164
Your great grey back seems so peaceful in the ocean - Great Grey Back
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