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SEA SHANTY LYRICS

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A song with the * after it is available as recorded by Roger Chartier on CD or as a download from the Sailor Songs CD and MP3 download store on this page you can click on the song to hear a sample from the two cd's available there recorded by me. There are a lot of other sea shanties by other artists available on the page as well.

On the Sea Shanty Store page you can click on the song to hear a sample.

These are a collection of songs that took a long time to accumulate from the far reaches of maritime history. This page lists a great deal of historically important lyrics and evidence of the way that sailors of old lived and worked.
Their thoughts about women, shipmates, jobs of work and a lot of other daily life routines are evidenced here.
The songs are an important part of our seafaring history.
Some of these lyrics pages have the chords.

There are somewhere in the vicinity of 243 Lyric pages here.
This is a good source for those of us who like to sing Sea Shanties.
People sometimes make a living singing sea shanties, and there are choral groups that do it as well.

The song that I have sung in the upper video on this page is not a sea shanty but I like it so here it is.

LINKS TO SEA SHANTIES

• A Cruising We Will Go


• A Hundred Years Ago


• A Life On The Ocean Wave


• A Long Time Ago


• A Rollin' Down the River


• A Rovin'


• A Sailor Loves


• A Wet Sheet And A Flowing Sea


• Abdul Abulbul Amir


• Across The Western Ocean


• Admiral Benbow


• Aha Me Boys - Lukey's Boat


• Alabama John Cherokee


• All For Me Grog   *


• Anchors Aweigh - Navy Song


• Andrew Barton


• Around Cape Horn


• Asleep In The Deep


• Away Rio


• Aweigh Santy Ano


• The Ballad Of Captain Kidd


• The Balena


• Baltimore Shanty


• Banana Boat Song (Day-O)


• Bang Lulu


• The Banks Of The Brandywine


• The Banks Of New Foundland


• The Banks Of The Nile


• The Banks Of The Sacramento


• The Banks Of Sweet Loch Ray


• The Bark Gay Head


• Barnacle Bill The Sailor *


• Battle of the Chesapeake & The Shannon


• Bay Of Biscay


• Bay Of Biscay ll


• Bell Bottom Trousers


• Ben Backstay


• The Bigler


• Blackbird


• Black Eyed Susan


• Bold Dighton


• The Bold Princess Royal


• Bold Riley


• Boston Harbor


• Botany Bay


• The Blackball Line


• Blood Red Roses


• Blow Bullies Blow


• Blow The Man Down *


• Blow The Wind Westerly


• Blow Ye Winds *


• Bobby Shaftoe


• Bold Nelson's Praise


• The Bonny ship The Diamond


• Boney


• British Man O War


• Brother Noah


• Bound For The Rio Grande


• Bully In The Alley

• Bye Bye Roseanna


• Can Of Grog


• Can you Dance The Polka


• Cape Cod Girls *


• Captain Kidd


• C'est L'Aviron


• Cheerly Man


• Clear The Track


• The Coast Of High Barbaree


• Cockles And Mussels


• The Common Sailor


• The Constitution And The Guerriere


• Crossing The Bar


• The Cumberland And The Merrimack


• Dance To your Daddy


• The Dark Eyed Sailor


• The Dead Horse


• Derelict


• The Dogger Bank


• Down To Hilo


• The Dreadnaught


• Drunken Sailor*


• The Ebenezer *


• The Edmund Fitzgerald


• Eight Bells


• Eliza Lee


• The Erie Canal


• The Essequibo River


• Farewell To Grog


• The Faithful Sailor Boy


• The Female Smuggler


• Fire Down Below


• Fire Maringo


• The Fire Ship


• The Fish Of The Sea


• The Flash Frigate


• The Flying Cloud


• The Gals Of Dublin Town


• General Taylor


• The Girl I Left Behind Me


• The Glasgow


• Go To Sea No More


• The Golden Vanity


• The Good Ship Calibar


• The Good Ship Kangaroo


• Good Bye Fare You Well


• Greenland Fishery


• The Grey Funnel Line


• The Handsome Cabin Boy


• Hanging Johnny


• Haul Away Joe*


• Hawl On The Bowline*


• Heart Of Oak


• Heave Away Me Johnnies


• Henry Martin


• Hi Lo Johnny Brown


• Hieland Laddie*


• High Barbaree


• Hills Of Isle Of Haut

• H M S Hood


• The Holy Ground*


• Homeward Bound


• Houseboat Katie*


• Huckleberry Hunting


• I Am A Brisk And Sprightly Lad


• I Come From Salem City


• I Popped Out


• Indian Lass


• In Heaven There Is No Beer


• Irish Rover


• I Saw Three Ships


• It's Of A Sailor Bold


• Jackaroe


• Jack the Sailor


• John Dory


• Johnny Kanakanaka


• Johnny Boker


• The Landlady Of France


• The Lass Of Swansea Town


• Leave Her Johnnie Leave Her


• The Leaving Of Liverpool*


• Le Grand Coureur


• Les Filles De La Rochelle


• Let The Bulgine Run


• Lime Juice Ship


• Lisbon


• London Julies


• The Low Low Lands Of Holland


• Lowlands


• Lustily


• Maggie May


• The Marines Hymn


• Married To A Mermaid


• The Mermaid


• Mingulay Boat Song


• My Boy Willie


• My Johnnie Is A Shoemaker


• Nancy Lee


• The Nobleman's Daughter


• The Norfolk Girls


• O Columbia the Gem Of The Ocean


• Old Stormalong


• Old Fall River Line


• One Of The Roaming Kind


• Only One More Day


• Ox Eyed Man


• Paddy Doyle's Boots


• Paddy Get Back


• Paddy West


• Paddy Works On The Railway


• Pay Me the Money Down


• Pirate Song


• Pleasant And Delightful


• Poor Joe The Marine


• Poor Old Horse


• Proud Sally


• Quare Bungle Rye


• Queen Of Connemara


• Randy Dandy O


• Ratcliffe Highway


• Reuben Ranzo


• The River Lea


• Roast Beef of Old England


• Rolling Down To Old Maui


• Roll Alabama Roll


• Roll The Cotton Down


• Roll The Old Chariot Along


• Rolling Home


• The Roseabella


• Round The Bay Of Mexico


• Round The Corner


• Sailing Sailing


• Sailors Alphabet


• Sailors Farewell Hymn


• Sally Brown


• Santa Ana or The Plains Of Mexico


• Saturday Night At Sea


• The Saucy Arethusa


• The Saucy Sailor Boy


• Serafina


• The Sheffield Apprentice


• Shenandoah*


• The Ship That Never Returned


• Shoals Of Herring


• Show Me The Way To Go Home


• Sir Richard Grenville's Farewell


• Skye Boat Song


• Sloop John B.*


• Song Of The Fishes


• South Australia


• Spanish Ladies (British Version)


• Spanish Ladies - Roger Chartier's-Yankee Version


• Stand To Your Guns


• Stately Southerner


• Stormy Weather Boys


• Strike The Bell


• Tarpaulin Jacket


• Ten Thousand Miles


• The Single Sailor


• The Token


• The Unfortunate Miss Bailey


• The Whalefishes


• Bound For The Rio Grande


• Three Score And Ten


• Tom Bowline


• Tom Tough


• Tom's Gone To Hilo


• Topman And The Afterguard


• Van Diemen's Land


• Waltzing Matilda


• The Water Is Wide*


• We Be Three Poor Mariners


• We're All Bound To Go


• When I Was A Lad


• Whiskey For My Johnny


• Whiskey For My Johnny


• Whiskey In The Jar


• Whup Jamboree


• Why Should We Quarrel For Riches


• Will Watch


• Won't you Go My Way


• Yankee John Stormalong


• Yankee Man O War


• Ye Mariners


• Ye Parliament Of England


• Yo Ho Ho And A Bottle Of Rum*


• Young Monroe

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