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 - Health to the Company

37 - Herring's Head

38 - High Barbary

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

40 - John the Slacker, Slacker

41 - Jutland

42 - Lady Leroy

43 - Last Shanty

44 - Leave her Johnny

45 - Leaving of Liverpool

46 - Let the Bulgine Run

47 - Lowlands

48 - Maid on the Shore

49 - Mermaid

50 - Mingulay Boat Song

51 - Molly Malone (cockless with muscles)

52 - Mollymauk

53 - Noah's Ark Shanty

54 - Old Maui

55 - One More Day

56 - Our captain cried all hands / Fountains Flowing

57 - Paddy lay back

58 - Paddy West

59 - Padstow Farewell

60 - Paint my sails red (Docks Shanty)

61 - Pay Me My Money Down

62 - Pique la Baleine

63 - Pirate Chantey (Key and Peele)

64 - Pleasant and Delightful

65 - Poor Old Horse

66 - Rio Grande

67 - Roll Alabama, Roll

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

69 - Rollickin' Randy Dandy O

70 - Row me bully boys row

71 - Row on, row on

72 - Row, bullies, row (Liverpool judies)

73 - Running Down To Cuba

74 - Salt Liberty - The Ballad of Mary Lacy

75 - Sam's Gone Away

76 - Shenandoah

77 - Soon may the Wellerman come

78 - South Australia

79 - Spanish Ladies

80 - Stormalong John

81 - Strike The Bell

82 - Sweet Ladies of Plymouth

83 - The Ballad of Anne Bonny

84 - The Bonnie Ship the Diamond

85 - The Fisherman's Wife

86 - The King of the Southern Sea

87 - The Last Bristolian Pirate

88 - The Mariner's Dream

89 - The Northwest Passage

90 - The Shores of Hispaniola

91 - The Sloop John B

92 - The Weary Whaling Grounds

93 - The Weary Whaling Grounds

94 - Three Score And Ten

95 - Tom's Gone To Hilo

96 - Towrope Girls

97 - Twiddles

98 - Wayward Wife

99 - What shall we do with the Patriarchy?

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

101 - Wild Goose Shanty

102 - Windy Old Weather

103 - Wreck of the Dandenong

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