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Sail On, Sailor; Sailing, Sailing; Sailor (song) The Sailor Song; A Sailor's Life; The Saucy Arethusa; Seemann (Lolita song) Seemann (Rammstein song) Ship Ahoy! (All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor) Son of a Son of a Sailor (song) The Song of the Marines; Song of the Yue Boatman
Pere Ubu's 1978 song "Caligari's Mirror" is a post-punk reworking of "Drunken Sailor". [24] Irish pop group Gina, Dale Haze and the Champions released a disco version of the song in 1981, which became a top 20 hit in the Irish charts. [25] The melody was also utilized by NFL Films composer Sam Spence for his track "Up as She Rises". [26]
In an influential early article about shanties, New York journalist William L. Alden drew a comparison between shanties and both authentic African-American songs and the quasi-African-American minstrel songs: The old sailor songs had a peculiar individuality. They were barbaric in their wild melody.
The Sailor's Hornpipe; Santianna; The Saucy Arethusa; 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
Seemann (Deine Heimat ist das Meer)" (English translation "Sailor (Your Home is the Sea)") is a song originally written in German by Werner Scharfenberger and lyricist Fini Busch . A 1959 German-language recording by Lolita became an international hit in 1960–61.
The Sailor's Hornpipe (also known as The College Hornpipe and Jack's the Lad [1]) is a traditional hornpipe melody and linked dance with origins in the Royal Navy. [ 2 ] History
The song stayed in King's repertoire for the rest of her life, and has remained popular. [3] It was first recorded in 1910, by Ella Retford. [4] [5] The words of the chorus are: [6] All the nice girls love a sailor All the nice girls love a tar For there's something about a sailor Well, you know what sailors are Bright and breezy, free and easy
The song was written by Richard Creagh Saunders (1809–1886), who enlisted in the navy as a Schoolmaster on the 11th of July, 1839. [1] It was recorded in Charles Harding Firth's Naval Songs and Ballads (1908) in a slightly different form from the one popularized in cinema, where its opening verse has been omitted, and with quatrain stanzas instead of couplets.