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"The Rocks of Merasheen" - Words by Al Pittman, music by Joe Byrne "The Ryans and The Pittmans (We'll Rant and We'll Roar)" - traditional, additional lyrics by W.H. LeMessurier "Saltwater Joys" - Wayne Chaulk performed by Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers "Song for Newfoundland" - Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers "Sonny's Dream" - Ron ...
Much of the region's music focuses on the strong seafaring tradition in the area, and includes sea shanties and other sailing songs. While drawing comparisons in its Celtic influence to music from neighboring Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island , Newfoundland and Labrador music contains more distinct Irish, English, and Cornish influence.
The "Coast of High Barbary" is a traditional song (Roud 134) which was popular among British and American sailors. It is most frequently sung as a ballad but can also be a sea shanty . It tells of a sailing ship that came across a pirate ship off the Barbary Coast and defeated the pirates , who were left to drown.
"The Sweet Trinity" (Roud 122, Child 286), also known as "The Golden Vanity" or "The Golden Willow Tree", is an English folk song or sea shanty.The first surviving version, about 1635, was "Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally)".
Intrigued by the possibilities of using radio to bring traditional music to larger audiences, Clayton landed a weekly series of 15-minute folk programs on New Bedford's WFMR and later on WBSM. Besides writing and announcing his own material, he performed live, singing the traditional songs he had been collecting to his own guitar accompaniment.
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Several of the early performers in the Folk genre performed and recorded a significant number of sailor songs. For example, Paul Clayton recorded the album Whaling and Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick (Tradition Records) in 1956, and Burl Ives' Down to the Sea in Ships came out in the same year. Since at least the 1950s, certain ...
"Spanish Ladies" (Roud 687) is a traditional British naval song, typically describing a voyage from Spain to the Downs from the viewpoint of ratings of the Royal Navy. [1] Other prominent variants include an American variant called "Yankee Whalermen", an Australian variant called " Brisbane Ladies ", and a Newfoundland variant called " The ...