Songs by First Line
'Tis of a lusty female, and you must understand - Handsome Cabin Boy
...38
'Twas on the Longstone Lighthouse there dwelt an English maid - Grace Darling
...34
A drop of Nelson's blood wouldn't do us any harm - Roll The Old Chariot Along (Nelson's Blood)
...81
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
...96
As I was a-walking one morning in June - Lady Leroy
...48
As I went walkin' down London Road, I come to Paddy West's house - Paddy West
...71
As my mother’s only daughter - Wayward Wife
...103
As we were a fishing off Happisburgh Light - Windy Old Weather
...108
Ben Backstay was a boatswain - Ben Backstay
...8
Cape Cod girls ain't got no combs - Cape Cod Girls
...19
Come all you true lovers attend for a while to a tale I am going to unfold! - Flora and James
...30
Come all you young fellows that follow the sea - Blow The Man Down
...11
Come listen awhile and you soon shall hear - Female Smuggler
...27
Come, all ye good people, and listen to my song - Female Sailor Bold
...26
Dark clouds are on the summer sky - Row on, row on
...84
Did you ever see the wild goose sailing on the ocean - Wild Goose Shanty
...107
Don't mind the rain or the rolling sea - Grey Funnel Line
...37
Essequibo River is the king of rivers all - Essequibo River
...24
Farewell and adieu to you Spanish ladies - Spanish Ladies
...94
Farewell my dear comrades, A pleasant adieu - The Blyth Sailor's Farewell
...12
Farewell to you my own true love - Leaving of Liverpool
...53
From Boston harbour we set sail - Boston Harbour
...15
From Liverpool to Frisco a-roving I went - Row, bullies, row (Liverpool judies)
...85
General Taylor's dead and gone - General Taylor
...32
Have you heard the news, my Johnny - One More Day
...68
I am a man upon the land - Fragile Water
...31
I am my mother’s savage daughter - My Mother's Savage Daughter
...63
I grew up as a girl in the fields of Kent - Salt Liberty - The Ballad of Mary Lacy
...87
I once met a lass so fine - Pirate Chantey (Key and Peele)
...76
I thought I heard our captain say - Pay Me My Money Down
...74
I thought I heard the old man say - John the Slacker, Slacker
...45
I thought I heard the Old Man say - Leave her Johnny
...52
I used to be a farmer, and I made a living fine - The Last Bristolian Pirate
...49
I wish I was a cabin boy, aboard a Man O’War - Sam's Gone Away
...88
I'll sing you a song, it's a song of the sea - Row me bully boys row
...83
If I had the wings of a gull my boy - The Weary Whaling Grounds
...104
In Dublin’s fair city - Molly Malone (cockless with muscles)
...61
In eighteen hundred and forty-six - Greenland Whale Fishery
...36
In Frisco Bay there were three ships - Noah's Ark Shanty
...64
In midnight sleep, the sailor boy lay - The Mariner's Dream
...57
In South Australia I was born - South Australia
...93
In the Black Ball line I served my time - Black Ball Line
...9
It was early, early all in a spring - Early, early in the spring / The single sailor
...23
It was pleasant and delightful on a midsummer’s morn - Pleasant and Delightful
...77
It's time to go now - Padstow Farewell
...72
Kind friends and companions come join me in rhyme - Health to the Company
...41
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)
...44
Lift him up and carry him along - Fire Marengo
...28
Louis was the king of France - Haul Away Joe
...40
Make the Mary Ellen Carter rise again - The Mary Ellen Carter
...58
Methinks I see a host of craft - Three Score And Ten
...99
My soul has been torn from me and I am bleeding - The Last Leviathan
...50
Now in sailor’s clothes Granuaile did go - Grace O'Malley
...35
Now we are ready to head for the horn, - Rollickin' Randy Dandy O
...82
Oh my name is De Clisson, no sailor am I - Paint my sails red (Docks Shanty)
...73
Oh the whale is free of the boundless sea - The King of the Southern Sea
...47
Oh wild and furious blew the blast - Wreck of the Dandenong
...109
Oh, the smartest packet you can find, - Let the Bulgine Run
...54
Oh, the year was 1778 - Barrett's Privateers
...7
Once there was a barge lad - Barge Ballad
...6
Our anchor's aweigh and our sails are set - Bold Riley
...13
Our boots and clothes is all in pawn - Blood Red Roses
...10
Our captain cried all hands we sail tomorrow - Our captain cried all hands / Fountains Flowing
...69
Our ship is a-sailing out over the Bar - Rio Grande
...79
Pour retrouver ma douce amie - Pique la Baleine
...75
Safe and sound at home again - Don't forget your old shipmate
...22
Sally is the girl that I love dearly - Bully In the Alley
...17
Some’s loading at 'frisco with cargoes of grain - Towrope Girls
...101
Stormy’s gone that good old man - Stormalong John
...95
Sunset and evening star - Crossing the Bar
...20
Sweet ladies of Plymouth, we’re saying goodbye - Sweet Ladies of Plymouth
...97
That day there was a great demand for sailors - Paddy lay back
...70
The boats are sailing round the bay - Bye-bye my Roseanna
...18
The Diamond is a ship, my lads - The Bonnie Ship the Diamond
...14
The herring is the king of the sea - Herring's Head
...42
The Navy would never have a lass at sea - Away Santianna
...4
There was a fair maid and she lived all alone - Maid on the Shore
...56
There was a ship that put to sea - Soon may the Wellerman come
...92
There were two lofty ships from old England came - High Barbary
...43
They call me hanging Johnny - Hanging Johnny
...39
They came in the night and their ships were as black as the ocean - The Shores of Hispaniola
...90
They say, old man, your horse will die - Poor Old Horse
...78
To Cuba’s coast we’re bound me boys - Running Down To Cuba
...86
Tommy’s gone, and I’ll Go too - Tom's Gone To Hilo
...100
We all got drunk in Dublin city - Fall Down Billy O'Shea
...25
We come on the sloop John B - The Sloop John B
...91
We think she stole Black Caesar's rig - The Ballad of Anne Bonny
...5
Well me father often told me when I was just a lad - Last Shanty
...51
Well met, well met, my own true love, well met, well met," cried he - Demon Lover / The House Carpenter
...21
Westward from the Davis Strait 'tis there 'twas said to lie - The Northwest Passage
...65
What care we though, white the Minch is? - Mingulay Boat Song
...60
What shall we do with the Patriarchy? - What shall we do with the Patriarchy?
...105
When first I landed in Liverpool, I went upon a spree - Go To Sea No More
...33
When I was a fair maid about seventeen - When I was a fair maid / Run the Riggin' Again
...106
When I was just a young man - This Dreadful Life
...98
When the Alabama's keel was laid - Roll Alabama, Roll
...80
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
...110