capstan shanty

Interesting Facts about The Rolling Home By The Silver Moon

Rolling Home By The Silver Moon is another shore song that has been adapted to use as a shanty, this song is of Negro origin and has been altered for the needs of the sailors. This capstan shanty was sung by Stan Hugill on board the American ship William T. Lewis.

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 180).

The lyrics:  “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 180, 181).

The Record of The Rolling Home By The Silver Moon

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The full lyrics

Rol-ling Home By The Silver Moon

Here’s to the good ol’ whisky, mop it down,
– mop it down!
Here’s to the good ol’ whisky, mop it down,
– mop it down!
Here’s to the good ol’ whisky, that makes ye feel so frisky,
– Here’s to the good ol’ whisky, mop it down!

– Rollin’ home, rollin’ home!
– Rollin’ home, rollin’ home!
– By the light of the silver moon.
– Happy is the sailor who has shipped aboard a whaler,
– When she’s rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ home!

* 2 *

Here’s to the good ol’ beer…

* 3 *

Here’s to the good ol’ rum…

* 4 *

Here’s to the good ol’ claret…

* 5 *

Here’s to the good ol’ cider…

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Interesting Facts about Goodnight Ladies

Goodnight Ladies is a Negro origin, it is a shore song, sometimes used as a capstan shanty. It was used aboard American ships. For the ‘good ship Shenandoah’ was sung, but any four-syllable name can be used.

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 180).

The lyrics:  “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 179, 180).

The Record of the Goodnight Ladies

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The musical notation

The full lyrics

Goodnight, Ladies

This is the way we sew the sails,
– sew the sails! sew the sails!
This is the way we sew the sails,
– on the good ship “Shenandoah”!

– Good-night, ladies, goodnight, ladies,
– Good–night, ladies, we’re gonna leave yer now!
– So, merrily we roll along, roll along, roll along,
– Merrily we roll along,
– On the good ship Shenandoah!

* 2 *

This is the way we heave the lead,

* 3 *

This is the way we roustabout.

* 4 *

This is the way we tuck a splice.

* 5 *

This is the way we stow a bunt.

* 6 *

This is the way we heave away.

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Interesting Facts about Shenandoah – Bullen

Shenandoah – Bullen, is another capstan shanty with the name “Shenandoah”, a song given by F.T. Bullen “Songs Of Sea Labour” (1914). Stan Hugill mention is that Bullen says, about the first four shanties from his collection, where “Shenandoah” was fourth:
“They are negro Chanties all right enough, but they were not in common use onboard ship. If however, it has demurred that the time is long since I learned them and memory may fail me, I can only reply I heard them every day for about a month, that I have never forgotten a tune I once learned, no matter how long ago it may have been, and consequently the correctness of these airs may be thoroughly relied on.”

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 177).

The lyrics:  “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 177).

The Record of the Shenandoah – Bullen

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The musical notation

The full lyrics

Shenandoah (F. T. Bullen)

Oh, Shenandoah, my bully boy, I long to hear you holler,
Way ay, ay ay ay, Shenandoh,
I lub ter bring er tot er rum en see ye make a swoller,
Way ay, ay ay, Shenandoh.

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Interesting Facts about Shenandoah D

This is one of the most popular of all capstan and windlass shanties, the “Shenandoah”. The interesting fact according to Stan Hugill is that no two shantymen ever sang the same pronunciation of the word “Shenandoah”. Shenandoar, Shannandore, Shanandar, and Shanidah were all used. This is the version when crossed Sally Brown.

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 175).

The lyrics:  “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 176, 177).

The Record of the Shenandoah D

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The full lyrics

Shenandoah D

O Sally Brown, I love your daughter,
Away, ye rollin’ river!
For her I sail across the water,
Away we’re bound to go;
‘Crosst the wide Missourah!

* 2 *

O Shenandoah’s a big plantation,
I’m shantyman of the Wild Goose Nation.

* 3 *

O Sally’s gal just took me fancy,
She’s clipper built; her name is Nancy.

* 4 *

O Sally Brown, I love yer dearly,
Ye had me heart or very nearly.

* 5 *

She lives alone in Kingston City,
It can’t be helped; oh more’s the pity,

* 6 *

I bought her coral beads and laces,
Often call her ‘Queen o’ Faces’.

* 7 *

Seven long years I courted Sally,
The sweetest flower in the valley.

* 8 *

Farewell, me dear; I’m bound; ter leave yer
I’m bound away; but won’t; deceive yer.

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Interesting Facts about Shenandoah C

Shenandoah C is one of the most popular of all capstan and windlass shanties, the “Shenandoah”. The interesting fact according to Stan Hugill is that no two shantymen ever sang the same pronunciation of the word “Shenandoah”. Shenandoar, Shannandore, Shanandar, and Shanidah were all used.
This version comes from Captain Frank H. Shaw’s “Splendour Of The Seas” (1953), Captan Shaw wrote:
“Perhaps the best known, certainly the favourite amongst windjammer men was ‘Shenandoah’. To hear these sweet strains floating over a placed anchorage as a crowd of half-sober men walk around the back-breaking capstan is to get the real poetry and splendour of the seas.

Even as a concert ditty the song has infinite charm. It seems to have a Negro origin because the Shenandoah river flowed through the slave-states below the Mason and Dixon Line, and whoever first sang it was obviously pinning for the delights of that considerable stream. Its composition throws an interesting sidelight on the conditions of life aboard the hard-case Yankee packets if even the slavery so poignantly described by Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe was preferable to existence aboard these hell-and-be-damned vessels!”

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 176).

The lyrics:  “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 176).

The Record of the Shenandoah C

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The full lyrics

Shenandoah C

Oh Shenandoah, I long ter hear yer,
– Away, ye rollin’ river!
Oh Shenandoah, I long ter hear yer,
– Away we’re bound to go,
– ‘Crosst the wide Missourah!

* 2 *

O Shenandoah, I took a notion,
To sail across the stormy ocean.

* 3 *

O Shenandoah, I’m bound ter leave yer,
O Shenandoah, I’ll not deceive yer.

* 4 *

O Shenandoah, I love yer daughters,
I love the music of yer waters.

* 5 *

‘Tis seven long years since last I seed yer,
But, Shenandoah, I’ll never grieve yer,

* 6 *

O Shenandoah’s my native valley,
Beside her waters I love to dally.

* 7 *

O Shenandoah she’s a lovely river,
An’ I shall never forget you ever.

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Interesting Facts about the Shenandoah B

Shenandoah B, is one of the most popular of all capstan and windlass shanties, the “Shenandoah”. The interesting fact according to Stan Hugill is that no two shantymen ever sang the same pronunciation of the word “Shenandoah”. Shenandoar, Shannandore, Shanandar, and Shanidah were all used. This was a very popular version about an Indian chief.

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 175).

The lyrics:  “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 175).

The Record of the Shenandoah B

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The full lyrics

Shenandoah B

Oh Missourah she’s a mighty water,
– Away, ye rollin’ river!
The red skin camp lies on her border,
– Away we’re bound to go,
– ‘Crosst the wide Missourah!.

* 2 *

O Shenandoah wuz a redskin maiden,
And a white man loved that redskin maiden,

* 3 *

Oh, the white man loved the Indian maiden,
With trade-goods his canoe was laden.

* 4 *

The chief refused the trader’s dollars
My daughter ye shall never follow

* 5 *

At last there came a Yankee skipper
Who winked his eye and flipped his flipper

* 6 *

He sold the chief some fire-water,
And stole the gal across the water.

* 7 *

O Shenandoah, I love yer daughter,
I’ll take her sailing cross yon rollin’ water,

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Interesting Facts about Shenandoah A

This is one of the most popular of all capstan and windlass shanties, the “Shenandoah”. The interesting fact according to Stan Hugill is that no two shantymen ever sang the same pronunciation of the word “Shenandoah”. Shenandoar, Shannandore, Shanandar, and Shanidah were all used. This is the first version — of Negro — origin, what Stan Hugill obtained from coloured cook (doctor) of the “Birkdale”, which had sailed for many years in the “Dales”, and in the “Invers” of the Milne Line of sailing ship.

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 175).

The lyrics:  “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 173, 175).

The Record of the Shenandoah A

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The musical notation

The full lyrics

Shenandoah A

Shenandoah, I long ter hear yer,
Hooray, you rollin’ river!
O Shenandoah, I cain’t git near yer,
High-ya! I’m bound away,
On the wide Missouri.

* 2 *

Shenan-doah, me daddy’s ner yer
O Shenan–doah, I seem ter hear yer.

* 3 *

Shenan-doah, me mudder’s near ye.
O Shenan-doah, for ye I’m weary.

* 4 *

Can the piccanninies hear ye?
O Shenan-doah, me heart’s a-dreary.

* 5 *

Shenan-doah, again I’ll hear ye.
O Shenan-doah, in dreams I’m near ye.

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