Songs by First Line
'Tis of a lusty female, and you must understand - Handsome Cabin Boy
...42
'Twas on the Longstone Lighthouse there dwelt an English maid - Grace Darling
...38
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
...48
As I was a-walking one morning in June - Lady Leroy
...53
As I went walkin' down London Road, I come to Paddy West's house - Paddy West
...79
As my mother’s only daughter - Wayward Wife
...113
As we were a fishing off Happisburgh Light - Windy Old Weather
...118
Been to sea for a month or more - Round the Bay of Mexico
...91
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
...22
Come all you true lovers attend for a while to a tale I am going to unfold! - Flora and James
...34
Come all you young fellows that follow the sea - Blow The Man Down
...13
Come listen awhile and you soon shall hear - Female Smuggler
...31
Come, all ye good people, and listen to my song - Female Sailor Bold
...30
Dark clouds are on the summer sky - Row on, row on
...93
Did you ever see the wild goose sailing on the ocean - Wild Goose Shanty
...117
Don't mind the rain or the rolling sea - Grey Funnel Line
...41
Essequibo River is the king of rivers all - Essequibo River
...27
Farewell and adieu to you Spanish ladies - Spanish Ladies
...103
Farewell my dear comrades, A pleasant adieu - The Blyth Sailor's Farewell
...14
Farewell to you my own true love - Leaving of Liverpool
...58
From Boston harbour we set sail - Boston Harbour
...17
From Liverpool to Frisco a-roving I went - Liverpool Judies / Row, bullies, row
...61
General Taylor's dead and gone - General Taylor
...36
Have you heard the news, my Johnny - One More Day
...76
I am a man upon the land - Fragile Water
...35
I grew up as a girl in the fields of Kent - Salt Liberty - The Ballad of Mary Lacy
...95
I heard the R2D2 Say - Ben Kenobi, Nobi
...10
I once met a lass so fine - Pirate Chantey
...84
I once was a rigger and I worked like hell - Rolling Down The River
...90
I thought I heard our captain say - Pay Me My Money Down
...82
I thought I heard the old man say - John the Slacker, Slacker
...50
I thought I heard the Old Man say - Leave her Johnny
...57
I used to be a tutor, and I made a living fine - The Last Oxonian Pirate
...55
I wish I was a cabin boy, aboard a Man O’War - Sam's Gone Away
...96
I'll sing you a song, it's a song of the sea - Row me bully boys row
...92
If I had the wings of a gull my boy - The Weary Whaling Grounds
...114
In Dublin’s fair city - Molly Malone (cockless with muscles)
...69
In eighteen hundred and forty-six - Greenland Whale Fishery
...40
In Frisco Bay there were three ships - Noah's Ark Shanty
...72
In midnight sleep, the sailor boy lay - The Mariner's Dream
...65
In my bag there is a knot - Maid Upon the Mountain
...64
In South Australia I was born - South Australia
...102
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
...26
It was pleasant and delightful on a midsummer’s morn - Pleasant and Delightful
...85
It's time to go now - Padstow Farewell
...80
Kind friends and companions come join me in rhyme - Health to the Company
...45
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)
...49
Lift him up and carry him along - Fire Marengo
...32
Louis was the king of France - Haul Away Joe
...44
Make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again - The Mary Ellen Carter
...66
Methinks I see a host of craft - Three Score And Ten
...109
My bonny silver herring - The Three Jolly Fishermen
...108
My mother told me - My Mother Told Me
...71
My soul has been torn from me and I am bleeding - The Last Leviathan
...54
Now in sailor’s clothes Granuaile did go - Grace O'Malley
...39
Now we are ready to head for the horn, - Rollickin' Randy Dandy O
...89
Oh my name is De Clisson, no sailor am I - Paint my sails red (Docks Shanty)
...81
Oh the whale is free of the boundless sea - The King of the Southern Sea
...52
Oh wild and furious blew the blast - Wreck of the Dandenong
...119
Oh, it was a fine and a pleasant day - The Shoals of Herring
...98
Oh, the smartest packet you can find, - Let the Bulgine Run
...59
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
...77
Our ship is a-sailing out over the Bar - Rio Grande
...87
Pour retrouver ma douce amie - Pique la Baleine
...83
Safe and sound at home again - Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate
...25
Sally is the girl that I love dearly - Bully In the Alley
...19
Some’s loading at 'frisco with cargoes of grain - Towrope Girls
...111
Stormy’s gone that good old man - Stormalong John
...104
Sunset and evening star - Crossing the Bar
...23
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
...78
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
...46
The Navy would never have a lass at sea - Away Santianna
...5
There once was a ship that put to sea - Soon may the Wellerman come
...101
There was a fair maid and she lived all alone - Maid on the Shore
...63
There were three men of Bristol City - Little Boy Billy
...60
There were two lofty ships from old England came - High Barbary
...47
There's a song in my heart for the one I love best - Yea Ho Little Fishes
...121
They call me hanging Johnny - Hanging Johnny
...43
They came in the night and their ships were as black as the ocean - The Shores of Hispaniola
...99
They say, old man, your horse will die - Poor Old Horse
...86
To Cuba’s coast we’re bound me boys - Running Down To Cuba
...94
Tommy’s gone, and I’ll Go too - Tom's Gone To Hilo
...110
We all got drunk in Dublin city - Fall Down Billy O'Shea
...28
We come on the sloop John B - The Sloop John B
...100
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
...56
Well met, well met, my own true love, well met, well met," cried he - Demon Lover / The House Carpenter
...24
Westward from the Davis Strait 'tis there 'twas said to lie - The Northwest Passage
...73
What care we though, white the Minch is? - Mingulay Boat Song
...68
What shall we do with the Patriarchy? - What shall we do with the Patriarchy?
...115
When first I landed in Liverpool, I went upon a spree - Go To Sea No More
...37
When I was a fair maid about seventeen - When I was a fair maid / Run the Riggin' Again
...116
When I was just a young man - This Dreadful Life
...107
When the Alabama's keel was laid - Roll Alabama, Roll
...88
Where are my boots, my nogging, nogging boots? - All For Me Grog
...4
Ye mariners all, as ye pass by - Ye Mariners All
...120
Young Susan was a blooming maid, so valiant, true and bold - Young Susan on Board of a Man-of-War
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