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A new version of "Wellerman" with German folk band Santiano was released as a single on 19 February 2021. [26] This version was included on the track listing of Santiano's EP Sea Shanties – Wellerman, which was released digitally on 26 February 2021. [27]
Sea shanty, Contemporary folk. Length. 4:45. Label. Fogarty's Cove Music. Songwriter (s) Stan Rogers. "Northwest Passage" is one of the best-known songs by Canadian musician Stan Rogers. An a cappella song, it features Rogers alone singing the verses, with Garnet Rogers, David Alan Eadie and Chris Crilly harmonizing with him in the chorus.
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.
We whalermen undergo. And we don't give a damn when the day is done/gale has stopped. How hard the winds did blow. 'cause we're homeward bound from the Arctic ground/tis a grand ol' sound. With a good ship, taut and free. And we won't give a damn when we drink our rum. With the girls of Old Maui. (Chorus) Rolling down to Old Maui, me boys.
Wellerman" is a ballad (often erroneously referred to as a sea shanty) that refers to the wellermen, the supply ships owned by the trading company set up by the Weller Brothers. [7] The song was originally collected around 1966 by the New Zealand-based music teacher and folk song compiler, Neil Colquhoun.
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.
Often described as a "walkaway" or "runaway chorus" or "stamp and go" sea shanty, the song features on the soundtrack of the 2019 film Fisherman's Friends. [1] The chorus comes from the 19th century Salvation Army hymn, 'Roll the old chariot'. Each line is repeated three times and describes something that the singing sailors would miss while at ...
The trend sparked a huge interest in sea shanties (despite Wellerman not actually being a sea shanty) with millions of people discovering The Longest Johns' recording of Wellerman, originally released on their 2018 album Between Wind and Water. [24] The song has been streamed on Spotify over 58 million times (as of 11 March 2023). [25]