Interesting Facts about the Goodbye Fare-ye-well (odd verses collection)
Here is the most popular homeward-bound shanty of them all with, perhaps, the exception of “Rolling Home” – “Goodbye Fare-ye-well” include version Goodbye Fare-ye-well. Goodbye Fare-ye-well (odd verses collection), sailors were ing at the windlass or capstan when raising the anchor. The collection of the culled odd verses to this version is from other shantymen – mainly German and Scandinavian. I think their enough verses to sing them together as a separate version. I used a slightly different melody mentioned by Stan Hugill, after version D.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the capstan shanty.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 122).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 123, 124).
The Record of the Goodbye Fare-ye-well (odd verses collection)
You also can find this record on my YouTube channel here or directly listen below. Additionally, if you want to share your opinion about the record or share your opinion you can do it in my Facebook forum here, or leave a comment at the bottom of this blog article.
The full lyrics
Good-bye Fare-ye-well (odd-verses collection)
At home there waits mother, an’ Susie an’ Flo,
– Goodbye, fare-ye-well! goodbye, fare-ye-well!
With all o’ them pulling she’s sure to go.
– Horraw, me boys we’re-homeward-bound!
* 2 *
We’re loaded down; with sugar and rum,
The sails they are set; and the wind she has come.
* 3 *
Our ropes are now taut and our sails they are full,
She spreads out her wings like a herring-back gull.
* 4 *
We’re-homeward–bound with a roaring breeze,
We’re-homeward-bound so the Old Man says.