pump shanty

Interesting Facts about the Dar Gingo Tre Flickor

“Dar Gingo Tre Flickor” Swedish capstan shanty, also used at pumps. This version according to Stan Hugill comes from: “Sang Under Segel” by Sigurd Sternvall (1935), where is stated that it was a “halar-, pump-, och brattspelvisa”, i.e. hauling, pump, and capstan shanty, but Stan Hugill doesn’t think this song can be hauling shanty.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the pump shanty.

The source of the Dar Gingo Tre Flickor

The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 393).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 393,394).

The Record of this sea shanty

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Dar Gingo Tre Flickor

Där gingo tre flickor , planterande kål
– Fantali för Julia! Fantali för Julia!
De talte så myeket om gifter mal
– Fantali för Julia!
För lilla bromsen han var me’,
den var så lejon lik att se.

– Å så lyste de med ljus,
– Å så tog de en pris snus,
– Oj tjohalia! Oj trigalia!
– Sjömänner äro så förlustiga,
– Oj tjohalia!

* 2 *

Där gingo tre sjömän och hörde därpå,
‘I afton vi skola till de flickorna gå.’

* 3 *

Flickorna stängde dörren med stickor och strå,
For att sjömännerna till dem ej skulle gå.

* 4 *

Men så blåste där upp en nordvästerlig vind,
Dörren flög upp och sjömännen steg in.

* 5 *

Då bäddas det upp en förgyllande säng,
Behagar det gossarna att sova i den?

* 6 *

När som det vart dager och dager vart ljus,
Då fanns det ej strå uppå flickornas hus.

* 7 *

De sjömän de ställde sig alla i ring,
Karbasen den valsar laget omkring.

* 8 *

Ja, säkert få vi våra skinn igen,
Men aldrig få de flickorna sin fägring igen.

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Interesting Facts about The Sailors Way

“The Sailors Way” it was capstan both outward and homeward bound song. According to J. Reed – Stan Hugill’s informant, this song also was sung at the pumps. Doerflinger is the only other collector who gives this song, but his version was as the “main-hatch song” – what British seamen would call a “forebitter”.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the pump shanty.

The source of The Sailors Way

The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 387).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 387, 388).

The Record of this sea shanty

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The Sailors Way

We’ve courted gay Peruvian gals,
French gals an’ Chinee
Spanish gals an’ Dutch gals too,
an’ dainty Japanee.
To far Australia, Honolulu,
where th’ Hawaian maidens play
Just a diff’rent gal in ev’ry port,
– An’ that’s the Sailor’s way.

– Then it’s goodbye, mavourneen
– We’re off to see again
– Sailor Jack always comes back
– To the gal he’s left behind!

* 2 *

In calm or storm, in rain or shine,
The shellback doesn’t mind,
When on the ocean swell, he’ll work like hell,
For the gal he’s left behind.
He beats in north, he runs far south,
He doesn’t get much pay,
– An’ that’s the Sailor’s way.

* 3 *

Oh, shinin’ is the North Star,
As it hangs on our stabbud bow.
We’re homeward bound for Liverpool town,
An’ our hearts are in it now.
We’ve crossed the Line and the Gulf Stream,
Bin round by Table Bay,
We’ve rounded Cape Horn, we’re home again,
– An’ that’s the Sailor’s way.

* 4 *

We’ll get paid off inLiverpool,
An’ blow our money free,
We’ll eat an’ drink an’ have our fun;
An’ forget the ruddy sea,
Oh, Johnny’ll go to his sweet Marie,
An’ Pat with his ‘cushla play,
But I’ll get drunk an’ turn in me bunk,
– An’ that’s the Sailor’s way.

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Interesting Facts about the Way Me Susiana!

“Way Me Susiana!” a hauling shanty, another fantastic song comes from Harding Barbadian. According to Stan Hugill, it has definitely Negro origin. From Harding, we know that this song was also used for pumping and cargo work. A very interesting part of Hugill’s description is that word “heave” suggests pumping, although some Negro hauling songs had the word “Heave” in their refrains, thus indicating that very possible they had one time or another been used at the jack-screws aboard cotton-ships.
The song will be reconstructed by myself as the pump shanty.

The source of the Way Me Susiana!

The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 378).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 378).

The Record of this sea shanty

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Way Me Susiana!

We’ll heave him up an away we’ll go,
– ‘WAY, me SusiANA!
We’ll heave him up an away we’ll go,
– We’re ALL bound over the MOUNten!

* 2 *

We’ll heave him up from down below,
That is where the cocks do crow,

* 3 *

An’ if we drown while we are young,
It’s better to drown, than to wait to be hung.

* 4 *

Oh, growl ye may but go ye must,
If ye growl too hard yer head they’ll bust.

* 5 *

Up sox, you cocks, hand her two blocks,
An’ go below to yer ol’ ditty box.

* 6 *

Oh, rock an’ shake ‘er, one more drag,
Oh, bend yer duds an’ pack yer bag.

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Interesting Facts about the Good Mornin Ladies All B

“Good Mornin Ladies All B” pump shanty in this version, is the song with the line “Good Mornin Ladies All” which gives us the notion that the song is the negro origin. In many cases, this song was used by Mobile Hoosiers to work the great jackscrews for stowing cotton. The word “Heave” and “haul” together usually indicates that the song was used at the pumps. Stan Hugill took this version from unnamed West Indian Seamen.
This song will be reconstructed as the pump shanty.

The source of the Good Mornin Ladies All B

The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 351).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 351).

The Record of this sea shanty

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Good Mornin Ladies All A

We are outward bound for Mobile Town,
– With a heave-O, haul!
An’ we’ll heave the ol’ – wheel round an’ round,
– Good mornin’, ladies all!

* 2 *

An’ when we get to Mobile town,
Oh, ’tis there we’ll drink an’ sorrow drown.

* 3 *

Them gals down south are free an’ gay,
Wid them we’ll spend our hard-earned pay.

* 4 *

We’ll swing around, we’ll have good fun,
An’ soon we’ll be back on the homeward run.

* 5 *

An’ when we get to Bristol town,
For the very last time we’ll waltz around.

* 6 *

With Pool and Meg an’ Sally too,
We’ll drink an’ dance wid a hullabaloo.

* 7 *

So a long goodbye to all you dears,
Don’t cry for us, don’t waste yer tears.

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Interesting Facts about the Poor Paddy Works On The Railway

“Poor Paddy Works On The Railway” usually used as the pump or capstan shanty “. Alden in Harpers Magazine (July 1882) declares that it is a “sailors” song tamed to do land service . . . on the minstrel stage. Stan Hugill also tells us that song was popular in the Western Ocean Packets about the time of the Irish Potato famine. This song will be reconstructed as the pump shanty.

The source of this sea shanty

The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 337).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 337, 338).

The Record of the Poor Paddy Works On The Railway

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Poor Paddy Works On The Railway

Oh, in eighteen hundred an’ forty one,
Me dungaree breeches I put on,
Oh, me dungaree breeches I put on,
To work upon the railway,

– The railway,
– I,m weary of the railway,
– Oh, Poor Paddy works on the railway!

* 2 *

In eighteen hundred an’ fourty-two,
I did not know what I should do,
So I shipped away wid and Irish crew,
To work upon the railway,

* 3 *

In eighteen hundred an’ fourty-three,
I packet me gear an’ went to sea,
I shipped away to Amerikee,
To work …

* 4 *

In eighteen hundred an’ fourty-four,
I landed on Columbia’s shore,
I had a pick-axe an’ nothin’ more.

* 5 *

In eighteen hundred and forty-five,
When Dan O’Connell he wuz alive,
To break me leg I did contrive.

* 6 *

In eighteen hundred an’ fourty-six,
Me drinks no longer I could mox,
So I changed me trade to carrying bricks.

* 7 *

In eighteen hundred an’ forty-seven,
Me Children numbered jist eleven,
Of girls I’d four, of boys I’d seven.

* 8 *

In eighteen hundred an’ fourty-eight,
I made a fortune, not to late,
An’ shipped away to the River Plate.

* 9 *

In eighteen hundred an’ fourty-nine,
I for a sigh of Home did pine,
So I sailed down so uth to a warmer clime.

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Interesting Facts about the Albertina – Glyn Davies

“Albertina” a Swedish pumping shanty, it has a melody very close to the opening line of a popular wartime song: “Twas down on the Rhine I met Rosalein”. Stan Hugill gives us two versions of this shanty, this one is the version from Professor J. Glyn Davies who gave to Stan the English translation of this song. The comment from stan Hugill says that the melody is German; shanty of Norwegian origin; taken down by J. Glyn Davies, October 1926, Uppsala. The song will be reconstructed by myself as the pump shanty.

The source of this sea shanty

The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 326).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 326, 327).

The Record of the Albertina – Glyn Davies

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Albertina – Glyn Davies

A schooner was built on the baltic,
Albertina that was the schooner’s name,
– Pump ‘er dry!
Albertina, says the story, Albertina’s all for glory,
Albertina that was the schooner’s name,
– Pump ‘er dry!

– Albertina, says the story, Albertina’s all for glory,
– Albertina thet was the schooner’s name,

* 2 *

And the schooner is painted already,
She is painted in red and violet —

She is painted, says the story, she is painted all for glory,
She is painted in red and violet.

* 3 *

And the schooner is rigged out already,
She is rigged out with tackles and with ropes,
She is rigged out, says the story, she is rigged out all for glory,
She is rigged out with tackles and with ropes.

* 4 *

And the schooner is charted already,
She is charted from Hamubrg, homeward bound,
She is chartered, says the story, she is chartered all for glory,
She is chartered from Hamburg, homeward bound.

* 5 *

And the schooner is loaded already,
She is loaded with beer and with wine,
She is loaded, says the story, she is loaded all for glory,
She is loaded with beer and with wine.

* 6 *

And the schooner is sailing already,
She is sailing away from sight of land,
She is sailing, says the story, she is sailing for glory,
She is sailing away from sight of land.

* 7 *

And the schooner is stranded already,
She is stranded between surf and reef,
She is stranded, says the story, she is stranded all for glory,
She is stranded between the surf and reef.

* 8 *

And her headstone is written already,
It is written in Latin and in gold,
It is written, says the story, it is written all for glory,
It is written in Latin and in gold.

* 9 *

On the beach there is a maiden weeping,
She is weeping for her lover on the beach,
She is weeping, says the story, she is weeping all for glory,
She is weeping for her lover on the beach.

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Interesting Facts about the Leave Her Johnny Leave Her – Pumps

“Leave Her Johnny Leave Her – Pumps” was a shanty that was used at pumps or capstan, also sometimes used as halyard shanty. However, it was mostly not used during the voyage due to the risk of being accused of mutiny by the singers, which was quite a serious risk as it was the unwritten rule of the merchant fleet that no serious complaints aloud about the captain or the job were allowed. So, due to the lyrics of this song (many verses are unprintable), it was especially used at the end of the voyage, when the (especially wooden) ship was in port, and all that was left was the final clearing and pumping out the water from the bilge, then the sailors could complain freely and it was accepted by the captain. This reconstruction will be a pump shanty.

The source of this sea shanty

The music: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 293).
The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 297, 298).

The Record of the Leave Her Johnny Leave Her – Pumps

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Leave her Johnny Leave Her (Pumps)

Oh, a dollar a day is a Jack Sprite’s pay,
– leave her, Johnny, leave her!
To pump all night an, to work all day,
– An’ it’s time for us to leave her!

– Leave her, Johnny, leave her,
– Ooh! leave her, Johnny, leave her!
– For the winds do roar an’ we wish we wuz ashore,
– An it’s time for us to leave her!

* 2 *

Though times is hard an’ the wages low,
There’s fathom o’ water down in the hold.

* 3 *

The Old Man shouts, the pumps stand by,
Oh, we can never suck her dry.

* 4 *

Heave one more turn an’ around she goes,
Or else we’ll be kickin’ up our toes.

* 5 *

Leave her, Johnny, we can pump no more,
Of pump or down we’ve had full store.

* 6 *

It’s pump or drown, the Old Man said,
Or else damn soon ye’ll all be dead.

* 7 *

Heave around or we shall drown,
Hey! don’t yiz feel her settlin’ down?

* 8 *

Heave around them pump-bowls bright,
There’ll be no sleep for us this night.

* 9 *

The rats have gone an’ we, the crew,
It’s time be damned that we went too.

* 10 *

Oh, pump away in merry, merry strife,
Oh, heave away for to save dear life.

* 11 *

Oh, pump her out from down below,
Oh, pump her out an’ away we’ll go.

* 12 *

The starboard pump is like the crew,
It’s all worn out an’ will not do.

* 13 *

Leave her, Johnny, we can pump no more,
It’s time we wuz upon dry shore.

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