Songs by First Line
'Tis of a lusty female, and you must understand - Handsome Cabin Boy
...36
'Twas on the Longstone Lighthouse there dwelt an English maid - Grace Darling
...32
A drop of Nelson's blood wouldn't do us any harm - Roll The Old Chariot Along (Nelson's Blood)
...75
A sailor’s life, it is a merry life - A Sailor's Life is a merry life
...1
Adieu, sweet lovely Nancy, ten thousand times adieu - Adieu, sweet lovely Nancy
...2
Aft on the Poopdeck - Strike The Bell
...90
As I was a-walking one morning in June - Lady Leroy
...46
As I went walkin' down London Road, I come to Paddy West's house - Paddy West
...65
As my mother’s only daughter - Wayward Wife
...97
As we were a fishing off Happisburgh Light - Windy Old Weather
...103
Ben Backstay was a boatswain - Ben Backstay
...7
Cape Cod girls ain't got no combs - Cape Cod Girls
...17
Come all you true lovers attend for a while to a tale I am going to unfold! - Flora and James
...28
Come all you young fellows that follow the sea - Blow The Man Down
...10
Come listen awhile and you soon shall hear - Female Smuggler
...25
Come, all ye good people, and listen to my song - Female Sailor Bold
...24
Dark clouds are on the summer sky - Row on, row on
...78
Did you ever see the wild goose sailing on the ocean - Wild Goose Shanty
...102
Don't mind the rain or the rolling sea - Grey Funnel Line
...35
Essequibo River is the king of rivers all - Essequibo River
...22
Farewell and adieu to you Spanish ladies - Spanish Ladies
...88
Farewell to you my own true love - Leaving of Liverpool
...50
From Boston harbour we set sail - Boston Harbour
...13
From Liverpool to Frisco a-roving I went - Row, bullies, row (Liverpool judies)
...79
General Taylor's dead and gone - General Taylor
...30
Have you heard the news, my Johnny - One More Day
...62
I am a man upon the land - Fragile Water
...29
I grew up as a girl in the fields of Kent - Salt Liberty - The Ballad of Mary Lacy
...81
I once met a lass so fine - Pirate Chantey (Key and Peele)
...70
I thought I heard our captain say - Pay Me My Money Down
...68
I thought I heard the old man say - John the Slacker, Slacker
...43
I thought I heard the Old Man say - Leave her Johnny
...49
I used to be a farmer, and I made a living fine - The Last Bristolian Pirate
...47
I wish I was a cabin boy, aboard a Man O’War - Sam's Gone Away
...82
I'll sing you a song, it's a song of the sea - Row me bully boys row
...77
If I had the wings of a gull my boy - The Weary Whaling Grounds
...98
In Dublin’s fair city - Molly Malone (cockless with muscles)
...57
In eighteen hundred and forty-six - Greenland Whale Fishery
...34
In Frisco Bay there were three ships - Noah's Ark Shanty
...59
In midnight sleep, the sailor boy lay - The Mariner's Dream
...54
In South Australia I was born - South Australia
...87
In the Black Ball line I served my time - Black Ball Line
...8
It was early, early all in a spring - Early, early in the spring / The single sailor
...21
It was pleasant and delightful on a midsummer’s morn - Pleasant and Delightful
...71
It's time to go now - Padstow Farewell
...66
Kind friends and companions come join me in rhyme - Health to the Company
...39
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)
...42
Lift him up and carry him along - Fire Marengo
...26
Louis was the king of France - Haul Away Joe
...38
Methinks I see a host of craft - Three Score And Ten
...93
Now in sailor’s clothes Granuaile did go - Grace O'Malley
...33
Now we are ready to head for the horn, - Rollickin' Randy Dandy O
...76
Oh my name is De Clisson, no sailor am I - Paint my sails red (Docks Shanty)
...67
Oh the whale is free of the boundless sea - The King of the Southern Sea
...45
Oh wild and furious blew the blast - Wreck of the Dandenong
...104
Oh, the smartest packet you can find, - Let the Bulgine Run
...51
Oh, the year was 1778 - Barrett's Privateers
...6
Once there was a barge lad - Barge Ballad
...5
Our anchor's aweigh and our sails are set - Bold Riley
...11
Our boots and clothes is all in pawn - Blood Red Roses
...9
Our captain cried all hands we sail tomorrow - Our captain cried all hands / Fountains Flowing
...63
Our ship is a-sailing out over the Bar - Rio Grande
...73
Pour retrouver ma douce amie - Pique la Baleine
...69
Safe and sound at home again - Don't forget your old shipmate
...20
Sally is the girl that I love dearly - Bully In the Alley
...15
Some’s loading at 'frisco with cargoes of grain - Towrope Girls
...95
Stormy’s gone that good old man - Stormalong John
...89
Sunset and evening star - Crossing the Bar
...18
Sweet ladies of Plymouth, we’re saying goodbye - Sweet Ladies of Plymouth
...91
That day there was a great demand for sailors - Paddy lay back
...64
The boats are sailing round the bay - Bye-bye my Roseanna
...16
The Diamond is a ship, my lads - The Bonnie Ship the Diamond
...12
The herring is the king of the sea - Herring's Head
...40
There was a fair maid and she lived all alone - Maid on the Shore
...53
There was a ship that put to sea - Soon may the Wellerman come
...86
There were two lofty ships from old England came - High Barbary
...41
They call me hanging Johnny - Hanging Johnny
...37
They came in the night and their ships were as black as the ocean - The Shores of Hispaniola
...84
They say, old man, your horse will die - Poor Old Horse
...72
To Cuba’s coast we’re bound me boys - Running Down To Cuba
...80
Tommy’s gone, and I’ll Go too - Tom's Gone To Hilo
...94
We all got drunk in Dublin city - Fall Down Billy O'Shea
...23
We come on the sloop John B - The Sloop John B
...85
We think she stole Black Caesar's rig - The Ballad of Anne Bonny
...4
Well me father often told me when I was just a lad - Last Shanty
...48
Well met, well met, my own true love, well met, well met," cried he - Demon Lover / The House Carpenter
...19
Westward from the Davis Strait 'tis there 'twas said to lie - The Northwest Passage
...60
What care we though, white the Minch is? - Mingulay Boat Song
...56
What shall we do with the Patriarchy? - What shall we do with the Patriarchy?
...100
When first I landed in Liverpool, I went upon a spree - Go To Sea No More
...31
When I was a fair maid about seventeen - When I was a fair maid / Run the Riggin' Again
...101
When I was just a young man - This Dreadful Life
...92
When the Alabama's keel was laid - Roll Alabama, Roll
...74
Where are my boots, my nogging, nogging boots - All For Me Grog
...3
Young Susan was a blooming maid, so valiant, true and bold - Young Susan on Board of a Man-of-War
...105