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 - The Ballad of Anne Bonny

5 - Barge Ballad

6 - Barrett's Privateers

7 - Ben Backstay

8 - Black Ball Line

9 - Blood Red Roses

10 - Blow The Man Down

11 - Bold Riley

12 - The Bonnie Ship the Diamond

13 - Boston Harbour

14 - Broadside

15 - Bully In the Alley

16 - Bye-bye my Roseanna

17 - Cape Cod Girls

18 - Crossing the Bar

19 - Demon Lover / The House Carpenter

20 - Don't forget your old shipmate

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

22 - Essequibo River

23 - Fall Down Billy O'Shea

24 - Female Sailor Bold

25 - Female Smuggler

26 - Fire Marengo

27 - The Fisherman's Wife

28 - Flora and James

29 - Fragile Water

30 - General Taylor

31 - Go To Sea No More

32 - Grace Darling

33 - Grace O'Malley

34 - Greenland Whale Fishery

35 - Grey Funnel Line

36 - Handsome Cabin Boy

37 - Hanging Johnny

38 - Haul Away Joe

39 - Health to the Company

40 - Herring's Head

41 - High Barbary

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

43 - John the Slacker, Slacker

44 - Jutland

45 - The King of the Southern Sea

46 - Lady Leroy

47 - The Last Bristolian Pirate

48 - Last Shanty

49 - Leave her Johnny

50 - Leaving of Liverpool

51 - Let the Bulgine Run

52 - Lowlands

53 - Maid on the Shore

54 - The Mariner's Dream

55 - Mermaid

56 - Mingulay Boat Song

57 - Molly Malone (cockless with muscles)

58 - Mollymauk

59 - Noah's Ark Shanty

60 - The Northwest Passage

61 - Old Maui

62 - One More Day

63 - Our captain cried all hands / Fountains Flowing

64 - Paddy lay back

65 - Paddy West

66 - Padstow Farewell

67 - Paint my sails red (Docks Shanty)

68 - Pay Me My Money Down

69 - Pique la Baleine

70 - Pirate Chantey (Key and Peele)

71 - Pleasant and Delightful

72 - Poor Old Horse

73 - Rio Grande

74 - Roll Alabama, Roll

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

76 - Rollickin' Randy Dandy O

77 - Row me bully boys row

78 - Row on, row on

79 - Row, bullies, row (Liverpool judies)

80 - Running Down To Cuba

81 - Salt Liberty - The Ballad of Mary Lacy

82 - Sam's Gone Away

83 - Shenandoah

84 - The Shores of Hispaniola

85 - The Sloop John B

86 - Soon may the Wellerman come

87 - South Australia

88 - Spanish Ladies

89 - Stormalong John

90 - Strike The Bell

91 - Sweet Ladies of Plymouth

92 - This Dreadful Life

93 - Three Score And Ten

94 - Tom's Gone To Hilo

95 - Towrope Girls

96 - Twiddles

97 - Wayward Wife

98 - The Weary Whaling Grounds

99 - The Weary Whaling Grounds

100 - What shall we do with the Patriarchy?

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

102 - Wild Goose Shanty

103 - Windy Old Weather

104 - Wreck of the Dandenong

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