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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

Captain, captain, you are a dandy - Shiny-O

...99

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 dreamed a dream the other night - Lowlands

...64

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 a Friday morn when we set sail - Mermaid

...69

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

It’s a damn tough life full of toil and strife - Old Maui

...76

Keep your land you gentry of England, France and Spain - Broadside

...18

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 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 southern ocean is a lonely place - Mollymauk

...71

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

When the boats all get to sailing and the men are off and gone - Twiddles

...113

Where are my boots, my nogging, nogging boots? - All For Me Grog

...4

Where are you goin’ my Billy-O? - Jutland

...53

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