Songs by First Line
'Tis of a lusty female, and you must understand - Handsome Cabin Boy
...43
'Twas on the Longstone Lighthouse there dwelt an English maid - Grace Darling
...39
A drop of Nelson's blood wouldn't do us any harm - A Drop of Nelson's Blood
...1
A sailor’s life, it is a merry life - A Sailor's Life is a Merry Life
...2
Adieu, sweet lovely Nancy, ten thousand times adieu - Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy
...3
Aft on the Poopdeck - Strike The Bell
...105
And it's home, boys, home! - Home, Boys, Home
...50
As I was a-walking one morning in June - Lady Leroy
...55
As I went walkin' down London Road, I come to Paddy West's house - Paddy West
...81
As my mother’s only daughter - Wayward Wife
...114
As we were a fishing off Happisburgh Light - Windy Old Weather
...120
Been to sea for a month or more - Round the Bay of Mexico
...92
Ben Backstay was a boatswain - Ben Backstay
...9
Cape Cod girls ain't got no combs - Cape Cod Girls
...21
Come all you fisher lassies, it’s come awa with me - Come All Ye Fisher Lassies
...23
Come all you true lovers attend for a while to a tale I am going to unfold! - Flora and James
...35
Come all you young fellows that follow the sea - Blow The Man Down
...13
Come listen awhile and you soon shall hear - Female Smuggler
...32
Come, all ye good people, and listen to my song - Female Sailor Bold
...31
Dark clouds are on the summer sky - Row on, row on
...94
Did you ever see the wild goose sailing on the ocean - Wild Goose Shanty
...119
Don't mind the rain or the rolling sea - Grey Funnel Line
...42
Essequibo River is the king of rivers all - Essequibo River
...28
Farewell and adieu to you Spanish ladies - Spanish Ladies
...104
Farewell my dear comrades, A pleasant adieu - The Blyth Sailor's Farewell
...14
Farewell to you my own true love - Leaving of Liverpool
...60
First the tale of a handsome girl as you may understand - Neither Maid nor Man
...73
From Boston harbour we set sail - Boston Harbour
...17
From Liverpool to Frisco a-roving I went - Liverpool Judies / Row, bullies, row
...63
General Taylor's dead and gone - General Taylor
...37
Have you heard the news, my Johnny - One More Day
...78
I am a man upon the land - Fragile Water
...36
I grew up as a girl in the fields of Kent - Salt Liberty - The Ballad of Mary Lacy
...96
I heard the R2-D2 Say - Ben Kenobi, Nobi
...10
I married John Coffin just two years ago - Sweet Mary Starbuck
...107
I once met a lass so fine - Pirate Chantey
...86
I once was a rigger and I worked like hell - Rolling Down The River
...91
I thought I heard our captain say - Pay Me My Money Down
...84
I thought I heard the old man say - John the Slacker, Slacker
...52
I thought I heard the Old Man say - Leave her Johnny
...59
I used to be a tutor, and I made a living fine - The Last Oxonian Pirate
...57
I wish I was a cabin boy, aboard a Man O’War - Sam's Gone Away
...97
I'll sing you a song, it's a song of the sea - Row me bully boys row
...93
If I had the wings of a gull my boy - The Weary Whaling Grounds
...115
In Dublin’s fair city - Cockless with Muscles (Molly Malone)
...22
In eighteen hundred and forty-six - Greenland Whale Fishery
...41
In Frisco Bay there were three ships - Noah's Ark Shanty
...74
In midnight sleep, the sailor boy lay - The Mariner's Dream
...67
In my bag there is a knot - Maid Upon the Mountain
...66
In South Australia I was born - South Australia
...103
In the Black Ball line I served my time - Black Ball Line
...11
It was early, early all in a spring - Early, Early in the Spring / The Single Sailor
...27
It was pleasant and delightful on a midsummer’s morn - Pleasant and Delightful
...87
It's time to go now - Padstow Farewell
...82
Kind friends and companions come join me in rhyme - Health to the Company
...47
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)
...51
Lift him up and carry him along - Fire Marengo
...33
Louis was the king of France - Haul Away Joe
...46
Make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again - The Mary Ellen Carter
...68
Methinks I see a host of craft - Three Score And Ten
...110
My bonny silver herring - The Three Jolly Fishermen (While The Merry Merry Bells Do Ring)
...109
My mother told me - My Mother Told Me
...72
My soul has been torn from me and I am bleeding - The Last Leviathan
...56
Now in sailor’s clothes Granuaile did go - Grace O'Malley
...40
Now we are ready to head for the horn, - Rollickin' Randy Dandy O
...90
Oh my name is De Clisson, no sailor am I - Paint my sails red (Docks Shanty)
...83
Oh the whale is free of the boundless sea - The King of the Southern Sea
...54
Oh wild and furious blew the blast - Wreck of the Dandenong
...121
Oh, a ship in the Tropics, a-foaming along - Towrope Girls
...112
Oh, it was a fine and a pleasant day - The Shoals of Herring
...100
Oh, the smartest packet you can find, - Let the Bulgine Run
...61
Oh, the year was 1778 - Barrett's Privateers
...8
Once there was a barge lad - Barge Ballad
...7
Our anchor's aweigh and our sails are set - Bold Riley
...15
Our boots and clothes is all in pawn - Blood Red Roses
...12
Our captain cried all hands we sail tomorrow - Our captain cried all hands / Fountains Flowing
...79
Our ship is a-sailing out over the Bar - Rio Grande
...89
Pour retrouver ma douce amie - Pique la Baleine
...85
Safe and sound at home again - Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate
...26
Sally is the girl that I love dearly - Bully In the Alley
...19
Sunset and evening star - Crossing the Bar
...24
Sweet ladies of Plymouth, we’re saying goodbye - Sweet Ladies of Plymouth
...106
That day there was a great demand for sailors - Paddy Lay Back
...80
The boats are sailing round the bay - Bye-bye my Roseanna
...20
The Diamond is a ship, my lads - The Bonnie Ship the Diamond
...16
The herring is the king of the sea - Herring's Head
...48
The Navy would never have a lass at sea - Away Santianna
...5
There once was a ship that put to sea - Wellerman / Soon may the Wellerman come
...116
There was a fair maid and she lived all alone - Maid on the Shore
...65
There were three men of Bristol City - Little Boy Billy
...62
There were two lofty ships from old England came - High Barbary
...49
There's a song in my heart for the one I love best - Yea Ho Little Fishes
...123
They call me hanging Johnny - Hanging Johnny 2
...45
They call me hanging Johnny - Hanging Johnny
...44
They came in the night and their ships were as black as the ocean - The Shores of Hispaniola
...101
They say, old man, your horse will die - Poor Old Horse
...88
To Cuba’s coast we’re bound me boys - Running Down To Cuba
...95
Tommy’s gone, and I’ll Go too - Tom's Gone To Hilo
...111
We all got drunk in Dublin city - Fall Down Billy O'Shea
...29
We come on the sloop John B - The Sloop John B
...102
We think she stole Black Caesar's rig - The Ballad of Anne Bonny
...6
Well me father often told me when I was just a lad - The Last Shanty
...58
Well met, well met, my own true love, well met, well met," cried he - Demon Lover / The House Carpenter
...25
Westward from the Davis Strait 'tis there 'twas said to lie - The Northwest Passage
...75
What care we though, white the Minch is? - Mingulay Boat Song
...70
What shall we do with the Patriarchy? - What shall we do with the Patriarchy?
...117
When first I landed in Liverpool, I went upon a spree - Go To Sea No More
...38
When I was a fair maid about seventeen - When I was a fair maid / Run the Riggin' Again
...118
When I was just a young man - This Dreadful Life
...108
Where are my boots, my nogging, nogging boots? - All For Me Grog
...4
Ye mariners all, as ye pass by - Ye Mariners All
...122
Young Susan was a blooming maid, so valiant, true and bold - Young Susan on Board of a Man-of-War
...124