Songbook

The songs here are listed by title. There is also an index of songs sorted by chorus, or and index of songs sorted by first line

Each song has a number - please call it out before you sing a song.

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1 - A Sailor's Life is a merry life

2 - Adieu, sweet lovely Nancy

3 - All For Me Grog

4 - Barge Ballad

5 - Barrett's Privateers

6 - Ben Backstay

7 - Black Ball Line

8 - Blood Red Roses

9 - Blow The Man Down

10 - Bold Riley

11 - Boston Harbour

12 - Broadside

13 - Bully In the Alley

14 - Bye-bye my Roseanna

15 - Cape Cod Girls

16 - Crossing the Bar

17 - Demon Lover / The House Carpenter

18 - Don't forget your old shipmate

19 - Early, early in the spring / The single sailor

20 - Essequibo River

21 - Fall Down Billy O'Shea

22 - Female Sailor Bold

23 - Female Smuggler

24 - Fire Marengo

25 - Flora and James

26 - Fragile Water

27 - General Taylor

28 - Go To Sea No More

29 - Grace Darling

30 - Grace O'Malley

31 - Greenland Whale Fishery

32 - Grey Funnel Line

33 - Handsome Cabin Boy

34 - Hanging Johnny

35 - Haul Away Joe

36 - Herring's Head

37 - High Barbary

38 - Jeanne de Clisson (la belle dame sans merci)

39 - John the Slacker, Slacker

40 - Jutland

41 - Lady Leroy

42 - Last Shanty

43 - Leave her Johnny

44 - Leaving of Liverpool

45 - Let the Bulgine Run

46 - Lowlands

47 - Maid on the Shore

48 - Mermaid

49 - Mingulay Boat Song

50 - Molly Malone (cockless with muscles)

51 - Mollymauk

52 - Noah's Ark Shanty

53 - Old Maui

54 - One More Day

55 - Our captain cried all hands / Fountains Flowing

56 - Paddy lay back

57 - Paddy West

58 - Padstow Farewell

59 - Paint my sails red (Docks Shanty)

60 - Pay Me My Money Down

61 - Pique la Baleine

62 - Pirate Chantey (Key and Peele)

63 - Pleasant and Delightful

64 - Poor Old Horse

65 - Rio Grande

66 - Roll Alabama, Roll

67 - Roll The Old Chariot Along (Nelson's Blood)

68 - Rollickin' Randy Dandy O

69 - Row me bully boys row

70 - Row on, row on

71 - Row, bullies, row (Liverpool judies)

72 - Running Down To Cuba

73 - Salt Liberty - The Ballad of Mary Lacy

74 - Sam's Gone Away

75 - Shenandoah

76 - Soon may the Wellerman come

77 - South Australia

78 - Spanish Ladies

79 - Stormalong John

80 - Strike The Bell

81 - Sweet Ladies of Plymouth

82 - The Ballad of Anne Bonny

83 - The Bonnie Ship the Diamond

84 - The Fisherman's Wife

85 - The King of the Southern Sea

86 - The Last Bristolian Pirate

87 - The Mariner's Dream

88 - The Northwest Passage

89 - The Shores of Hispaniola

90 - The Sloop John B

91 - The Weary Whaling Grounds

92 - The Weary Whaling Grounds

93 - Three Score And Ten

94 - Tom's Gone To Hilo

95 - Towrope Girls

96 - Twiddles

97 - Wayward Wife

98 - What shall we do with the Patriarchy?

99 - When I was a fair maid / Run the Riggin' Again

100 - Wild Goose Shanty

101 - Windy Old Weather

102 - Wreck of the Dandenong

103 - Young Susan on Board of a Man-of-War