AlaskaProf
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Shipping up to Boston! Great Irish tune.
Since AlaskaProf already mentioned my favorite (the instrumental from Master and Commander,
Agreed!!! A little DKM for the masses...
I'm a sailor peg
And I've lost my leg
Climbing up the top sails
I've lost my leg!
For me personally, A Pirate Looks at Forty hit me pretty good this past year.
K9. I think there is a wee bit of Pirate in all of us! So let's ship up to Boston and have a pint and some rum!
Cheers.
H.
If you think Canada's contribution to folk singers with a maritime flavour begins and ends with Gordon Lightfoot, you're sorely mistaken. Stan Rogers is the real deal; so much so that a song of his saved a soul lost at sea:
The Mary Ellen Carter...if only we could get Stan to rise again...
If you think Canada's contribution to folk singers with a maritime flavour begins and ends with Gordon Lightfoot, you're sorely mistaken. Stan Rogers is the real deal; so much so that a song of his saved a soul lost at sea:
The Mary Ellen Carter...if only we could get Stan to rise again...
Since AlaskaProf already mentioned my favorite (the instrumental from Master and Commander,
https://youtu.be/mbNiGcSLmz4
Simply beautiful music.Terrific movie to boot.
Here's another classic, the soundtrack from the Onedin Line.(A BBC series, early 70's I think)
https://youtu.be/Vx7RWW36wes
Good choices Andy, I loved the Master & Commander movie and the music, and later enjoyed all the books, (13, I think). Edit - actually 21 when I checked the iPad library.
I also enjoyed the Onedin Line, and wifey got me the boxed DVD set, which I am working through now.
But, like many others mentioned, the Beach boys, "Sloop John B", is hard to beat. Maybe because it was one song I knew the guitar chords might have a bit to do with it..?
Well if we're going to get all crude and lusty and pirate-y and mention the Good Ship Venus, then there's always Barnacle Bill the Sailor. Perhaps the funniest, most versatile song on the water, but only when you're on the second bottle of wine sitting around the cockpit table with friends at night, and no minors within hearing distance. You can make it as crude and shocking as you want and curse like a pirate, or you can do a cleaner version. There's even a 1928 version that's so cleaned up it's almost PG rated. I'm not sure there's another song on earth that lends itself to making up your own additional verses as easily as Barnacle Bill. And the best performance of all is if you have women on board to sing the "fair young maiden's" parts and the guys sing Barnacle Bill's replies, but only if you master that lecherous, guttural "Weeeeeelllll!!..." or else you completely lose the effect.
I think by the time we got to Tod Inlet in BC on the 5th day we had composed 20 extra verses of Barnacle Bill although no sheep were actually harmed, the lyrics were all fictitious.