Interesting Facts about the Barney Buntline
“Barney Buntline”, this song comes on Stan Hugill’s “Shanties From the Seven Seas”, straight after “The Drummer And The Cook”, and in his comment, Stan Hugill mentions that in his intuition:
“Terry was wrong in thinking it to be a music-hall song; it may not be a ‘genuine’ shanty, but it is certainly based on a sea-song.” And the “Barney Buntline” is the song that Stan Hugill is referring to.
I will reconstruct this song as a forebitter.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 460).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 460).
The Record of the Barney Buntline
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The musical notation
The full lyrics
Barney Buntline
Oh One night came on a hurricane, the sea was mountains rollin’
When Barney Bountline chewed his quid and said to Billy Bowline,
“A strong nor’-west-er’s blowin’, Bill, hark, don’t ye hear it roar now?
Lord ‘elp ’em ‘ow I pities ’em un-happy folks on shore now,
With a tow, row, row – right to me addy, wi’ a tow, row, row!