Various performers. Previously released on Folkways and Smithsonian Folkways, 1951-1997. Program notes by Jeff Place, bibliography, and discography (24 p.) inserted in container.
Contents:
Roll, Alabama, roll : The Alabama (3:00) ; Shenandoah (3:27) (The X-Seamen's Insititute) -- Clear the track and let the bullgine roll (Sam Eskin) (1:31) -- Greenland whale fisheries (Stuart Gillespie) (2:11) -- Paddy Doyle's boots (Alan Mills and the Shanty Men) (:36) -- The black ball line (The Foc'sle Singers) (:59) -- The sloop John B. (The Dicey Doh Singers) (2:09) -- Tommy's gone to Hilo (Stuart M. Frank) (:58) -- Lord Franklin (The Gold Ring) (2:14) -- The handsome cabin boy (Stuart Gillespie) (2:22) -- Rio Grande (The Foc'sle Singers) (2:43) -- Run come see (The X-Seamen's Institute) (2:41) -- Ten-penny bit (Ellen Cohn) (1:27) -- South Australia (Stan Hugill) (3:04) -- Haul away Joe (Lead Belly) (2:49) -- Blood-red roses (Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, A.L. Lloyd, and chorus) (1:33) -- All for me grog (Louis Killen, Jeff and Gerret Warner, and Fud Benson) (3:04) -- Haul on the bowline (The Foc'sle Singers) (1:17) -- Bully in the alley (Morrigan) (1:39) -- Chesapeake born (Tom and Mark Wisner) (4:15) -- A hundred years on the eastern shore (Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, A.L. Lloyd, and chorus) (1:49) -- Dredgin' is my drudgery (Tom and Mark Wisner) (2:26) -- Liverpool judies (Stuart M. Frank) (1:05) -- Santiano (The X-Seamen's Institute, Louis Killen, and Stan Hugill) (1:43) -- Reuben Ranzo (The X-Seaman's Institute) (1:25) -- The girls around Cape Horn (Tom Goux and Jacek Sulanowski) (2:18) -- Adieu, my lovely Nancy (Morrigan) (2:19) -- The Dreadnaught (Tom Sullivan) (3:27) -- Married to a mermaid (Tom Goux and Jacek Sulanowski) (1:31) -- Boney (The X-Seaman's Institute) (1:06) -- Homeward bound ; The old slipper shoe (Tom Sullivan) (1:52) -- Homeward bound (Stuart M. Frank) (2:31).
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