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Interesting Facts about the Horraw For The Blackball Line

Horraw For The Blackball Line was sung at the capstan or windlass All those shanties with words “Hurrah”, “Horray”, or “Horraw” in the refrain or chorus were known by sailors as “horraw choruses” and very often was said that “our wild horraw chorus soon raised the mud hook (or hoisted the tops’l)”. Here is one of the best “horraw choruses” shanty.

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 131).

The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 131).

The Record of the Horraw For The Blackball Line

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The musical notation

The full lyrics

Horraw For The Blackball Line

In the Blackball Line I served me time,
– To me way, hay, hoo, ro, yah
In the Blackball Line I served me time,
– Hooraw for the Blackball Line!

* 2 *

Blackball ships are good an’ true
They are the ships for me an’ you

* 3 *

That’s the Line where ye can shine
That’s the Line where I wasted me prime.

* 4 *

If yer wish to find a real goldmine,
Just take a trip on a Blackball ship

* 5 *

Just take a trip to Liverpool,
To Liverpool that Yankee school

* 6 *

Yankee sailors ye’ll see there,
With red-topped boots an’ short-cut hair.

* 7 *

There’s Liverpool Pat with his tarpaulin hat,
An’ Paddy Magee the Packet Rat

* 8 *

There was once a Blackball ship,
That fourteen knots an hour could slip.

* 9 *

They’ll carry ye along through the ice an’ snow,
They’ll thake ye where the winds don’t blow.

* 10 *

I’ve seen the Line both rise an’ shine,
An’ crossed the line in ’em many a time.

* 11 *

Oh, drink a health to the Blackball Line,
Their ships are stout an’ their men are fine.

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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.

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Interesting Facts about the Goodbye Fare-ye-well (D)

Goodbye Fare-ye-well (D) was sung at the windlass or capstan when raising the anchor. Verses to this version are the version from “The Dreadnought”. I used a slightly different melody mentioned by Stan Hugill, after this version (version D), in the text, he mentioned, is that some of the seamen sang the first few bars this way.

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 122, 123).

The Record of the Goodbye Fare-ye-well (D)

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The full lyrics

Goodbye Fare-ye-well (D)

‘Tis of a flash packet – a packet o’ fame,
– Goodbye, fare-ye-well! goodbye, fare-ye-well!
She’s a rorty flash packet an’ the “Dreadnought’s” her name.
– Horraw, me boys, we’re homeward bound!

* 2 *

She’s bound to the west’ard where the salty winds blow,
Bound away in the “Dreadnought” to the Pierhead do flock.

* 3 *

It’s now we are leavin’ the sweet salthouse Dock,
Where the boys an’ the girls on the Pierhead do flock.

* 4 *

They give three loud cheers while the tears freely flow,
Bound away in the Dreadnought to the west’ard we’ll go.

* 5 *

It’s now we are sailin’ on the wild Irish shore,
Our passangers all sick, and our new mates all sore.

* 6 *

Oh, it’s now we’ve arrived on the Banks o’ Newf’n’land,
Where the bottom’s all fishes an’ fine yeller sand.

* 7 *

Where the fishes they sing as they swim to an’ fro,
She’s a Liverpool packet;–O Lord let ‘er go!

* 8 *

Now we’re a-runnin’ down the Long Island shore,
Where the Pilot will board us as he’s done oft before.

* 9 *

Then back yer main tops’l raise yer main tack also,
Bound away to the west’ard in the Dreadnought we go.

* 10 *

It’s now we’ve arrived in ol’ New York once more,
Where I’ll see my dear Sal, oh, the gal I adore.

* 11 *

I’ll call for strong liquors an’ married we’ll be,
Here’s a health to the Dreadnought where’er she may be.

* 12 *

Here’s a health to her Ol’ Man an’ officers too,
Here’s a health to the Dreadnought, to the west’ard we’ll go!

* 13 *

This song was composed when the watch went below,
Bound away in the Dreadnought, to the west’ard we’ll go!

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Interesting Facts about the Goodbye Fare-ye-well (C)

Goodbye Fare-ye-well (C) was sung at the windlass or capstan when raising the anchor. Verses to this version are the ‘Milkmaid’ theme (see ‘Blow the Man Down’ page 210, first edition, of the “Shanties from the Seven Seas”). Is worth mentioning, that Stan Hugill disagreed with collectors and writers who hold a theory that homeward-bound songs were never debased by sailors. This version is an example of an exception from this theory (the “Milkmaid” version was entirely obscene).

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 120). I try to recreate this song from hearted Stan Hugill’s version from the album “Chants des Marins Anglais” (1992), with Stormalong John.

The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 122).

The Record of the Goodbye Fare-ye-well (C)

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The full lyrics

Goodbye Fare-ye-well (C)

Oh, as I wuz a-rollin’ down Ratcliffe Highway,
– Goodbye, fare-ye-well! goodbye, fare-ye-well!
A pretty young maiden I chanct for to see.
– Horraw, me boys, we’re homeward bound!

* 2 *

Oh, where are ye goin’ to, my pretty maid?
I’m going a milkin’, kind sir, she said.

* 3 *

Oh, have ye a sweatheart, my pretty maid?
‘I’m lookin’ for one, kind sir,’ she said.

* 4 *

Then may I come wid ye, my pretty maid?
‘Well, yes, since ye axed me, sir,’ she said.

* 5 *

‘But I guess yer a bad one, kind sir,’ she said.
‘Ye want for to love me, but yer don’t want ter wed,’

* 6 *

Jack took her in tow, an’ away they did go,
The bulls did a grunt, an’ the cows did a low.

* 7 *

They came to a haystack but the maid she wuz shy,
They backed and they filled an’ heaved many a sigh.

* 8 *

The haystack capsized an’ Jack got all bent,
With hay in his gaff-tops’l, his breeches all rent.

* 9 *

So he left her a-sittin’ a-lookin’ forlorn,
An’ shipped to the south’ard away round Cape Horn.

* 10 *

Now, all ye young sailors that round the Horn sail,
Don’t take a young milkmaid away from her pail.

* 11 *

Or else ye’ll regret it an’ wish ye were dead,
So don’t go a-courtin’ in a haystack for a bed.

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Interesting Facts about the Goodbye Fare-ye-well (B)

Goodbye Fare-ye-well (B) was sung at the windlass or capstan when raising the anchor. Verses to this version have been taken from the old forebitter “Homeward Bound”.

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 120). I try to recreate this song from hearted Stan Hugill’s version from the album “Chants des Marins Anglais” (1992), with Stormalong John.

The lyrics: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed p 121, 122).

The Record of the Goodbye Fare-ye-well (B)

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

Goodbye Fare-ye-well (B)

Wer’re homeward bound I heard them say,
– Goodbye, fare-ye-well! goodbye, fare-ye-well!
Wer’re homeward bound to Liverpool Bay
– Horraw, me boys, we’re homeward bound!

* 2 *

Wer’re homeward bound to Liverpool Town,
Where them gals they will come down.

* 3 *

An’ when we gits to the Salthouse Dock,
Them pretty young gals on the pierhead will flock.

* 4 *

An’ one to the other ye’ll hear them say,
Here comes Johnny with his tree years’ pay.

* 5 *

Then we haul to the ‘Bull an’ the Bell’,
Where good liquor they do sell.

* 6 *

In comes the landlord with a smile,
Saying, ‘Drink up, lads, while it’s worth yer while!’

* 7 *

But when the money’s all spent an’ gone,
Not even a cent for to call yer own,

* 8 *

In comes the landlord with a hell o’ a frown,
It’s ‘Get up, Jack–let John sit down.’

* 9 *

Then poor ol’ Jack must understand,
There’s ships in port all wanting hands.

* 10 *

An’ he’ll pack up his sea-chest and get under way,
The gals he has left they can take his half-pay.

* 11 *

We’re homeward bound don’t ye hear the Mate say?
We’re homeward bound–the anchor’s aweigh!

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