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Pirate metal, viking metal. A sea shanty, shanty, chantey, or chanty (/ ˈʃæntiː /) is a genre of traditional folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large merchant sailing vessels. The term shanty most accurately refers to a specific style of work song belonging to this historical repertoire.
"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)".
19th century or earlier. Genre. Sea shanty. " Drunken Sailor ", also known as " What Shall We Do with a/the Drunken Sailor? " or " Up She Rises ", is a traditional English sea shanty, listed as No. 322 in the Roud Folk Song Index. It was sung aboard English sailing ships at least as early as the 1830s.
If you’re not already singing along to a bunch of 19th-century songs about whale hunting, then dive into this sea of shanties. British group The Longest Johns helped the digital revival of sea ...
Sea shanties are a type of work song traditionally sung by sailors. Derived from the French word 'chanter', meaning 'to sing', they may date from as early as the 15th century, but most recorded examples derive from the 19th century. [ 96 ]
Sea Songs. Sloop John B. Laura Alexandrine Smith. The Song of the Volga Boatmen. Sons of the Sea (song) South Australia (song) Spanish Ladies. Alfred Bulltop Stormalong. The Sweet Trinity.
Boatmen's, fishermen's, and rowing songs, and water legends. Laura Alexandrine Smith (1861–1902) [ 1] was an English musician, [ 2] ethnomusicologist [ 3] and one of the earliest collectors of sea shanties. [ 4] Smith's The Music of the Waters, published in 1888, was possibly the first collection of sea shanties to include music as well as words.
Coast of High Barbaree. 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.