Interesting Facts about the Haul The Bowline B
“Haul The Bowline” is the shanty that opens the fourth part of the “Shanties From The Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill. Song also opens the family of the shanties with the word “haul”. Stan Hugill tells us that it is quite possible that this is the most ancient of the shanties, seeing that the bowline was a rope of prime importance in medieval times.
This version, Stan Hugill learned from a Welsh deep-water man, and he says that this song (including this particular version), has been sometimes used at the capstan.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the capstan shanty.
The source of the Haul The Bowline B
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 356).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 356).
The Record of this sea shanty
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The musical notation
The full lyrics
Haul The Bowline B
Because she had a fore-top, fore ‘n main t’ bowline,
– Haul on the bowline, the bowline haul,
Because she had a main-top, main ‘n’ mizen t’bowline -,
– Ha-ul on the bowline, the bowline haul,
– Haul on the bowline, Oh Kitty you’re me darlin’ -,
– Haul on the bowline, the bowline haul,