The Helen Creighton Folklore Society Presents: Songs of the Sea

Album by Various Artists

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Henry Martin
    4:06
  2. 2.
    The Golden Vanity
    1:30
  3. 3.
    Golden Vanity
    2:37
  4. 4.
    The Chesapeake and Shannon
    2:37
  5. 5.
    Broken Ring Song
    3:04
  6. 6.
    The Mermaid
    2:38
  7. 7.
    Brigantine Sirocco
    3:08
  8. 8.
    The Banks of Newfoundland
    3:27
  9. 9.
    The Ghostly Sailors
    3:23
  10. 10.
    Quays of Belfast
    2:06
  11. 11.
    The Dreadful Ghost
    5:51
  12. 12.
    The Sailor’s Alphabet
    2:27
  13. 13.
    The Sailor’s Alphabet
    2:15
  14. 14.
    Jack the Sailor
    1:21
  15. 15.
    Captain Conrod & talk about Captain Conrod
    4:55
  16. 16.
    The Schooner Mary Jane (Recitation & Narrative)
    2:36
  17. 17.
    Sinking of the Vestris
    1:59
  18. 18.
    Heroes of the Vestris
    1:15
  19. 19.
    The Wreck of the Cariboo
    2:05
  20. 20.
    Nova Scotia Song
    2:21
  21. 21.
    Nova Scotia Song & talk on how he learned the song
    2:27

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    Moonlight Tonight Boys
    2:11
  2. 2.
    Blow the Man Down
    1:21
  3. 3.
    Whiskey Johnny
    1:26
  4. 4.
    Robin Ranzo
    1:34
  5. 5.
    Reuben Ranzo
    1:48
  6. 6.
    Shenandoah
    1:30
  7. 7.
    My Bully Boys Blow
    1:20
  8. 8.
    Narrative: Explanation of Chanty Singing by Capt. R.A. Goudey
    0:40
  9. 9.
    Homeward Bound
    1:23
  10. 10.
    Homeward Bound
    1:25
  11. 11.
    A-Roving
    1:56
  12. 12.
    Poor Old Man & Old Horse
    2:49
  13. 13.
    Poor Old Man
    1:24
  14. 14.
    Narrative: Explanation of Poor Old Man
    0:21
  15. 15.
    Leave Her Johnny Leave Her
    0:32
  16. 16.
    Rio Grande
    1:06
  17. 17.
    Isle of Fuji (I’m Bound for the Isle of Beauty)
    0:32
  18. 18.
    Boatswain Call the Watch (Recitation & Song) & Narrative
    5:41
  19. 19.
    Haul Away on the Bowline
    0:28
  20. 20.
    Sebastopol Is Taken
    1:10
  21. 21.
    Banks of Sacramento
    0:32
  22. 22.
    Swing Your Tail
    1:15
  23. 23.
    We’ll Pay Paddy Doyle for His Boots
    0:43
  24. 24.
    Brandy-O & Narrative (Song was used stowing ballast)
    2:04
  25. 25.
    Narrative: Chanty singing; used on ships & when logging
    2:01
  26. 26.
    Narrative: Paul Myra, on songs and a life fishing from Lunenburg
    4:29

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