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The verses in Masefield's version asked what to do with a "drunken sailor", followed by a response, then followed by a question about a "drunken soldier", with an appropriate response. Capt. W. B. Whall, a veteran English sailor of the 1860s–70s, was the next author to publish on "Drunken Sailor".
It contained all these tracks except "Old Woman Tossed Up in a Blanket" and "Boys and Girls come out to Play". Two tracks were missing from "The Drunken Sailor". In its place there was a new track – "Humpty Dumpty", with leads vocals by Bob Johnson. In 1989 EMI/Music For Pleasure released a 3-CD set called "The Children's Collection".
The romantic "White House" ("Do you think that you could be happy/ livin' by the sea/ In a white house with bay windows/ and a lawn that's gone to seed") was recorded on both The Wackers, "Wackering Heights" and The Butts Band, "Hear and Now" albums. Stull's storytelling song style is clear on the demo he cut with Tommy Bolin in 1971.
Recently, their recording of "Drunken Sailor" reached a younger audience on YouTube. In 2010, The Irish Rovers marked their 45th anniversary with the release of the CD Gracehill Fair, which won a local music award on their home base of Vancouver Island. [10] The band returned to the World Music charts in 2011 with their album, Home in Ireland.
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With the U.S. national debt totalling over $33 trillion and the White House calling for billions of dollars more in spending packages, billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller is calling for ...
Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys is a compilation album of sea shanties produced by Hal Wilner.Songs are performed by artists representing a variety of genres, ranging from pop musicians like Sting, Bono, Jarvis Cocker, Lou Reed, Nick Cave and Bryan Ferry, to actors like John C. Reilly, to folk musicians like Richard Thompson, Loudon Wainwright III and Martin Carthy.
The songs were mirror images of each other, with each character accompanied by smaller, minion-sized versions of themselves, all brought to life in Animagic. Composer Maury Laws told Goldschmidt ...