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 - Away Santianna

5 - The Ballad of Anne Bonny

6 - Barge Ballad

7 - Barrett's Privateers

8 - Ben Backstay

9 - Black Ball Line

10 - Blood Red Roses

11 - Blow The Man Down

12 - The Blyth Sailor's Farewell

13 - Bold Riley

14 - The Bonnie Ship the Diamond

15 - Boston Harbour

16 - Broadside

17 - Bully In the Alley

18 - Bye-bye my Roseanna

19 - Cape Cod Girls

20 - Crossing the Bar

21 - Demon Lover / The House Carpenter

22 - Don't forget your old shipmate

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

24 - Essequibo River

25 - Fall Down Billy O'Shea

26 - Female Sailor Bold

27 - Female Smuggler

28 - Fire Marengo

29 - The Fisherman's Wife

30 - Flora and James

31 - Fragile Water

32 - General Taylor

33 - Go To Sea No More

34 - Grace Darling

35 - Grace O'Malley

36 - Greenland Whale Fishery

37 - Grey Funnel Line

38 - Handsome Cabin Boy

39 - Hanging Johnny

40 - Haul Away Joe

41 - Health to the Company

42 - Herring's Head

43 - High Barbary

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

45 - John the Slacker, Slacker

46 - Jutland

47 - The King of the Southern Sea

48 - Lady Leroy

49 - The Last Bristolian Pirate

50 - The Last Leviathan

51 - Last Shanty

52 - Leave her Johnny

53 - Leaving of Liverpool

54 - Let the Bulgine Run

55 - Lowlands

56 - Maid on the Shore

57 - The Mariner's Dream

58 - The Mary Ellen Carter

59 - Mermaid

60 - Mingulay Boat Song

61 - Molly Malone (cockless with muscles)

62 - Mollymauk

63 - My Mother's Savage Daughter

64 - Noah's Ark Shanty

65 - The Northwest Passage

66 - Old Maui

67 - Old Zeb

68 - One More Day

69 - Our captain cried all hands / Fountains Flowing

70 - Paddy lay back

71 - Paddy West

72 - Padstow Farewell

73 - Paint my sails red (Docks Shanty)

74 - Pay Me My Money Down

75 - Pique la Baleine

76 - Pirate Chantey (Key and Peele)

77 - Pleasant and Delightful

78 - Poor Old Horse

79 - Rio Grande

80 - Roll Alabama, Roll

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

82 - Rollickin' Randy Dandy O

83 - Row me bully boys row

84 - Row on, row on

85 - Row, bullies, row (Liverpool judies)

86 - Running Down To Cuba

87 - Salt Liberty - The Ballad of Mary Lacy

88 - Sam's Gone Away

89 - Shenandoah

90 - The Shores of Hispaniola

91 - The Sloop John B

92 - Soon may the Wellerman come

93 - South Australia

94 - Spanish Ladies

95 - Stormalong John

96 - Strike The Bell

97 - Sweet Ladies of Plymouth

98 - This Dreadful Life

99 - Three Score And Ten

100 - Tom's Gone To Hilo

101 - Towrope Girls

102 - Twiddles

103 - Wayward Wife

104 - The Weary Whaling Grounds

105 - What shall we do with the Patriarchy?

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

107 - Wild Goose Shanty

108 - Windy Old Weather

109 - Wreck of the Dandenong

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