Johnny Collins - South Australia (sea shanty)

The traditional sea shanty, "South Australia," sung by English folk singer Johnny Collins.

[@hopefulamerican]

Thanks to Capt. Stone for introducing this song to me.

[@vanidicus8017]

Same

[@mmeiselph7234]

Was the Pogues for me.

[@odybray974]

who's Capt. Stone?

[@hopefulamerican]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6e6qKePrpild5Y It's at the end of the video.

[@michaelsommers2356]

Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oHasdKWnqrKDjLM

[@RysterialProductions]

As a South Australian, I’m very happy this exists

[@AussieWalkthroughs]

I'm a Adelaide Born and raised, barely left our state, South Australia is the best quite, temperate place in the world, imo haha

[@Piesolesy]

you sound drunk

[@sambutton8494]

I'm a high level rower for the South Australian state team. I listen to this as I train often.

[@nintiwirri]

My old footy coach in Murray Bridge was Bo Button.He was a legend

[@highviewbarbell]

I'm American but I promise one day to sing this in a bar in Adelaide

[@kyehosking]

Can i be there when ya do lol also in adelaide il be waiting

[@just-a-fella3212]

We sung this song in primary school in grade 3 in 1969 I enjoyed it then and now.

[@person-ie1fe]

As an SA Adelaide liver, I approve. Done it yet?😊

[@RvBCabooseBT]

I would love to have Capt. Stone do a full cover. Hearing the tanks in the background made it pretty neat

[@mr_girr3488]

who is captain stone?

[@RvBCabooseBT]

@@mr_girr3488 kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6e6qKePrpild5Y at the end of the video here

[@sueydakillaboo]

@@RvBCabooseBT nano is us, we are nano

[@whitemakesright2177]

I love this song. The beginning when he says "South Australia is my home" gets me every time. That feeling of returning home after a long journey, and longing for home during that journey.

[@nosinman212]

Lol I was born in South Australia. And I still live there.

[@Nomad_Dad]

my family has lived in south australia since 4 years after it was founded..im still here and have a son here too lol go south australia

[@zacdavis9806]

JDRMinecraft & Papamunski Gaming what was the family convicted of? :P

[@Nomad_Dad]

south australia was a non convict settlement, unlike the rest rest of australia, :P they paid for their passage here

[@dravenocklost4253]

To the rest of the world that's North Australia xD

[@craighawkins4133]

Papamunski Gaming South Australians are here by choice because it is such a beautiful place.

[@VannywiththeFanny]

Dude. Me and my homies got so drunk one night and passed out with his phone on playing music on YT. I wake up at like 3am and this is what i hear on blast, everybody else laying face down😂. Today i had like an epiphany and somehow remembered it and bam im here lmao this is great

[@tiltonroadbirmingham1153]

My grandfather used to sing this to us as kids. He was working out of Devonport.

[@lostintashkent]

just been strolling around Muttly Plain for the first time in years. All the history that place has seen! All the lives of ordinary people that made it.

[@madisonatteberry9720]

The picture matches the song and I like that.

[@AgamemnonVsSocratesAandS]

I love it! Especially the parrot on his knee

[@madisonatteberry9720]

@@AgamemnonVsSocratesAandS By chance, do you know the title of the painting?

[@scallamander4899]

@@madisonatteberry9720 I'd love to know too.

[@joegrundy5970]

Shame most people will never hear Johnny live, what a fantastic person.

[@thefalsh]

so I just moved to South Australia. currently playing this to my daughters in the bath

[@prinztricky]

No reply in two month, guess some murderous creature got him...

[@thefalsh]

haha - no i moved to south australia from sydney. it is a fantastic place.

[@RedBeardedLife]

Simon Dent Good Man....

[@jakesweet1000]

if i lived in sydney id move here too

[@DazzaBo]

@Richard : South Australia doesn't really have a summer though :P

[@jefftheprimordialtardigrad5219]

Lyrics: [Verse 1] In South Australia I was bound Heave away, haul away South Australia is my home We're bound for South Australia [Chorus] Haul away, you rolling kings To me heave away, haul away Haul away, you'll hear me sing We're bound for South Australia [Verse 2] Now as I walked out one morning fair Heave away, haul away 'Twas there I met miss Nancy Blair We're bound for South Australia [Chorus] Haul away, you rolling kings To me heave away, haul away Haul away, you'll hear me sing We're bound for South Australia [Verse 3] I shook her up, I shook her down Heave away, haul away I shook her round and round the town We're bound for South Australia [Chorus] Haul away, you rolling kings To me heave away, haul away Haul away, you'll hear me sing We're bound for South Australia [Verse 4] There's just one thing that grieves my mind Heave away, haul away That's leaving Nancy Blair behind We're bound for South Australia [Chorus] Haul away, you rolling kings To me heave away, haul away Haul away, you'll hear me sing We're bound for South Australia [Verse 5] And when we're walloping off Cape Horn Heave away, haul away You'd wish to God you'd never been born We're bound for South Australia [Chorus] Haul away, you rolling kings To me heave away, haul away Haul away, you'll hear me sing We're bound for South Australia [Verse 6] I wish I was on Australia's strand Heave away, haul away With a bottle of whiskey in me hand We're bound for South Australia [Chorus] Haul away, you rolling kings To me heave away, haul away Haul away, you'll hear me sing We're bound for South Australia

[@Izaak0708]

Thx you sir

Thanks mate :)

[@themanwithallthewrongopini3551]

imperialist Japan are you disappointed in modern japan father?

[@davidkettina453]

Yo what's the instruments

[@jefftheprimordialtardigrad5219]

@@davidkettina453 Vocal cords.

[@ArchieMacaulay]

I first met Johnny Collins when he was a sergeant radiographer in the the British Military Hospital Singapore in 1969. He also ran the Anophel Inn Folk Club where he and “Mac” were head and shoulders above the rest of us would be folk singers. He later headlined a folk evening that I organised in the crypt at the Royal College Greenwich

[@miaerin07]

This was my grandads favourite song and when I was little on the way home from school we would sing this (me my sister and my grandad). He’s sadly now passed🤍 This song is going to be at my wedding when I’m older, I won’t tell anyone it’s going to be a big surprise. We were so close🤍

[@MadTurt]

Great sentiment, sending love

[@soupguy5243]

i love more authentic, less polished singers that genuinely just seem like theyre having a great time

[@TheMichaelseymour]

heres my own composition - raw australian colonial song - if you dig it-feel free to leave me a comment - cheers from melbourne - by a first fleet convict descendant ! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rXrUgZyVpt6cpdk

[@mobucks555]

I saw a video of some random guy singing this in a WWII FPS and it blew me away wish I could find it again.

[@donaldlambert83]

Look up Nano, it's in his video titled "No woman, no cry". It's somewhere around the 9:46 mark.

[@mobucks555]

@@donaldlambert83 thanks!

[@donaldlambert83]

Sure thing

[@kylegates6043]

“ when were walloping off Cape Horn , you’ll wish to god you’ve never been born “ damn I was born in the wrong century.

[@soggyvideos5038]

Kyle Gates Cape Horn still exists, sail it!

[@GaiusCaligula234]

@@soggyvideos5038 "still" as if it could just disappear

[@larriyrnir5756]

@@soggyvideos5038 "sail it" As if it's just calm seas and sunshine

[@SportSoulLife]

@@larriyrnir5756 Its safer and easyer now that it was back then. There are no laws against doing it

[@larriyrnir5756]

@@SportSoulLife and? it's still fucking CAPE HORN

[@justforever96]

Yes, he could be the one singing! He looks like he'd sound like this guy. I like it.

[@xFATMAN192x]

Thank you Assassins creed for helping bring Sea Shanties In to the 21st century and the new generation. I really want to see an increase in this type of music maybe some modern shanties could be interesting.

[@BoarhideGaming]

xFATMAN192x Problem is, physical group work is no longer as prevalent as it used to be 150-200 years ago. Doesn't mean it wouldn't work, there's just no longer a need to coordinate through musical rythm

[@zacharylobel3883]

+xFATMAN192x I don't think Assassins creed brought sea shanties into the 21st century at all, for example I have been listening to shanties since before assassins creed 4 was out and a lot of the people I know have. I also STRONGLY disagree with modern shanties, I think I if I heard a auto-tuned terrible voice singing about sailing with a synthesizer in the background I would go drown myself in a toilet. I am already ashamed enough by modern country music.

[@mattybhoy6522]

Go to a pub in Ireland. Many sing alongs

[@humanityfirstnow]

Modern Shanty "I am a computer programmer from Leeds...

[@mattybhoy6522]

Yes I know this has nothing to do with the Irish. Point is, is that the only place where proper folk song sing alongs are the norm is there. Irish folk songs are similar to these Shanties. I'm not even Irish. No one's claiming this is Irish

[@liammcbro8947]

💙❤️💛 South Australia is my home

[@bormby_jones]

Go bless our little pile of dirt and goofy street names

[@boogietaveras92]

I'm cousin is in the navy and he sings this all the time!

[@nicclarke1151]

Imagining myself dancing to this with a pint in some old pub somewhere?

[@randy4871]

yessir. a Guinness extra in a dimly lit pub on the far side of the world with some drunken mates perhaps.

[@commodore665]

+Nick Clarke a pint of Guinness no less

[@alistairthompson8311]

+Randall Rogers Presumably somewhere far from South Australia.

[@rjart4]

A pint of cider in Plymouth!!

[@rjart4]

A pint of cider in Plymouth my lover!!

[@ryanking3829]

I recently found out my grandfather made the trip from London to Port Adelaide on the Northern Monarch clipper ship in 1876 id like to think at some point in the voyage this song was sung And over 100 years later its still around for those who decents whos family had migrated all those years ago.

[@glynluff2595]

Mine was doing a similar run at the same time. I still have his log. He went on to Calcutta before his home run. Voyage included death, mutiny, murder and imposition of discipline upon crew and passengers by bare fists etc. Weather caused dismantling and captain and himself both being washed overboard and returned on the reflux in his case twice. Watches lasted twenty four hours on occasion weather so bad in Indian Ocean. It was always considered bad luck by the old shell backs to sing shanties on shore what they would sing were forebitters the recreational songs of loss, hope and aspiration. These did not have the syncopated work rhythms of shanties. Incidentally, shanties were never sung by the R N who hauled to the count of two six. G. Luff

[@Delicious_J]

Must've been a hell of a journey back then.

[@Chloe-mi7zx]

My teacher sings this to us in class with his guitar. He sings it a little faster like at speed 1.25 but all of my classmates love the song and know it by heart.

[@isaimarin612]

This takes me back to the moment we furrowed the waters of the tasman sea.

[@jitgreen8366]

This is for my friend Rueben “toss” from the Aussie ship Canberra. Love you bro. He’s from Adelaide .

[@sparebone]

Love it, gives you a good knees up kind of feeling, where you feel you could do better for yourself amongst the lads and amongst a greater kind of pride

[@Suburbannite]

This song gets me nostalgic even though I'm not Australian or irish or anglo at all 😂

[@ketchuplad157]

@widhbnw efDwdwDW i think they're getting at the fact that australians might feel a connection to this song as it's about australia, and the anglos and irish both have a history of sea shanties making the essence of this type of music nostalgic to them

[@kyehosking]

Ocean connects us all

[@mollymillions5438]

I was born in South Australia but still don't know the history of this song. (I'm descended for Irish folk (Maguires) that received a free trip out here several generations ago and would like to know the origins of this song). My mother was baron in Gawler SA and so was her father.

[@LegendaryKazooMann1936]

I once boarded an old round-bottomed cargo ship for a school trip. The crew taught us this song as we pulled ropes for various things. Fun times! Heve away haul away!

[@ostlandr]

I volunteer on a horse farm, and it takes a LOT of hose to reach all the water tanks. When I have to coil it all up, this chantey is just the right rhythm. When I want to take it slow, I use "General Taylor."

[@alistairthompson8311]

Just looked up General Taylor on this here youtube and the version I came across sounds like it was sung by English folk singers rather than Americans. Not bad as far as English folk goes.

[@Steveirwin4477]

I love this song

[@robertgreen6027]

shame, such lovely music to give you the savour the ambience and music of the 17th-18th century!

[@sandydipper2695]

RIP Johnny Collins. And to all the AC4 Smelly Pirate Hookers this sea song is not a Caribbean pirate sea shanty but a traditional sea song sang by sailors on the voyage from England to Australia in the 1900's. No sorry they are not Pirates but yes its the best sea song ever made and nobody does it better than old Johnny

[@mehdy8]

+King Aelle of Northumbria You are destined to kill Ragnar Lodbrok by throwing him into a pit of snakes :,(

[@pros371]

@Brantius Riximium He is not unwelcome to anyone , he is Just giving additional information about the shanty and i bet that most fans are eager to learn more about these songs and their orogins. Also a hipster would probably listen to trap "music".

[@pros371]

@Brantius Riximium well if he should be welcome then he is not welcome...it is common sense mate. As for the smelly and so , i do not think he said it in a bad manner rather speaking in a way that pirate enthusiasts would like.

[@pros371]

@Brantius Riximium My english is fine alright, but you sir have an aggressive attitude, i recommend you keep that on check. I also recommend that you read my answers more carefully. From the very beginning i have understood that you said that he he should be welcoming them and not be welcome himself. And as i said he is not unwelcome towards them.

[@pros371]

@Brantius Riximium Indeed i forgot the -ing which alters the meaning of the word but still any competent reader would understand what i meant to say. Even if you did not you should have by my next answers. I am not trying to worm anything out, i simply am honest. If that is so you probably have some anger issues which again, i recommend you address as they can erode the social bonds with your close people.

[@GrandpaCanCook]

Always something special about a sea shanty. Glad I found your channel.

[@dwyer1964]

Good job if you live in Adelaide South Australia

[@bormby_jones]

You know it

[@mro1864]

As ever the songs of the working class are the best.

[@thethiccdictator7481]

Glad I found this, this songs totally reminds me of ACBF, heard this in a different game, and now I’m here

[@kyehosking]

Port adelaide was one of the main whaling and trade points in the world,. The maritime history is rich in South Australia, when im in the boat fishing occasionally i will pop this on,

[@apocryphachi7425]

Homeward bound. With the feeling that mom is waiting for me with a hug after a long absence.

[@VauhtipiruVaara]

'Home Sweet Home' painted by Norman Rockwell, I believe.

[@smugdogg3273]

as a south Australia born and raze i fell happy for my state

[@speedyspeeds]

Another banger song. Fuck yes.

[@CLOAKSEY]

best song ever heard in 20 yrs:):):):):):)

[@lsdvine]

lovely job!

[@robertgreen6027]

Beautiful!

[@mrquackadoodlemoo]

1.25 speed - old men belting out a jaunty tune, sober as a sword. 1.00 speed - old men singing tunes of their youth, a little melancholic. .75 speed - old men have now had a few drinks. .50 speed - of the 13 old men in the reunion, 3 are still conscious, but only barely. .25 speed - only one left not passed out, but he's fading FAST.

[@georgewraith8360]

Sang along with him many time's in the pubs at Scarborough seafest 2001.untill 2010.. Great weekends.

[@JFGryphonNYC]

Great rendition

[@skipy936]

Miss you mate, but keep being drawn to listen to you sing.

[@mdb45424]

why so little likes, this song awesome

[@adaminabyangler391]

Golden music!

[@KptSabeltann]

But you can still go sailing :) There are alot of sailing ships you can travel with :) like the beatiful Christian Radich from Norway :) They sailed the atlantic last winter :) It was MAGNIFICENT :)

[@Jesslyn204]

Christopher Dvergsdal not o not the Christian Radich is available for those kind of sailing trips. The Statsraad Lehmkul is also a very beautiful ship too sail with. She's also from Norway a good country too.

[@Ukepa]

really good version of a great song! Pogues did another good version!!!

[@teutonalex]

We sang this on Lady Washington when heaving on the main down haul. It helps.

[@immortalasirpa6006]

+teutonalex That's so cool! I sang it on a tall ship, too, whose name escapes me at the moment. And, yes, we were pulling on the main downhaul. Ha! That makes me happy. People forget that some sea shanties are working songs, to get everybody haul on the sheets or do whatever efficiently, everybody in the same tempo. So many performers sing this song way too fast and lose the whole purpose of the song.

[@immortalasirpa6006]

+Agent Black Rat And when did you work on the Lady Washington? So jealous.

[@teutonalex]

+Agent Black Rat I did a few stint aboard her in 2004,5 and 2007. And you are right, this is the correct speed in which to sing it. Many of the available version are too fast. This is the right haul yard rhythm.

[@deezy0835]

listening this to pay respect to my father who was a petty officer in the Australian Navy

[@soupersonic]

Haul away, you rolling kings To me heave away, haul away

[@wjack4728]

This is /root for seafaring music.

[@StorytellerOfTheDead]

1.25 speed. That is all.

[@zacdavis9806]

StorytellerOfTheDead I'm never going to be able to listen to it at original speed

[@applecrow8]

StorytellerOfTheDead put it on .5 and it sounds like they are drunk

[@banno69]

+8Ampoliros lmao I just cracked up in a silent office >.

[@starak97]

+StorytellerOfTheDead 0.5 speed....

[@barclinxox]

And people said youtube comments are useless.

[@AlexanderEBott]

Imagine all that heaving to only have to slink back to south Australia.... jeez... fuck.... hard times....

[@rednasxela6031]

{Verse 1} In South Australia I was born Heave away, haul away South Australia is my home We're bound for South Australia {Chorus} Haul away, you rolling kings To me heave away, haul away Haul away, you'll hear me sing We're bound for South Australia {Verse 2} Now as I walked out one morning fair Heave away, haul away 'Twas there I met miss Nancy Blair We're bound for South Australia {Chorus} Haul away, you rolling kings To me heave away, haul away Haul away, you'll hear me sing We're bound for South Australia {Verse 3} I shook her up, I shook her down Heave away, haul away I shook her round and round the town We're bound for South Australia {Chorus} Haul away, you rolling kings To me heave away, haul away Haul away, you'll hear me sing We're bound for South Australia {Verse 4} There's just one thing that grieves my mind Heave away, haul away That's leaving Nancy Blair behind We're bound for South Australia {Chorus} Haul away, you rolling kings To me heave away, haul away Haul away, you'll hear me sing We're bound for South Australia {Verse 5} And when we're walloping off Cape Horn Heave away, haul away You'd wish to God you'd never been born We're bound for South Australia {Chorus} Haul away, you rolling kings To me heave away, haul away Haul away, you'll hear me sing We're bound for South Australia {Verse 6} I wish I was on Australia's strand Heave away, haul away With a bottle of whiskey in me hand We're bound for South Australia {Chorus} Haul away, you rolling kings To me heave away, haul away Haul away, you'll hear me sing We're bound for South Australia

[@ninaliin1728]

Dame good song

[@LockeRobsta]

As a New South Welshman this makes me jealous

[@Oziji]

this song unironically helped me through a breakup

[@kenji3979]

Capt. Stone, I give you my thanks

[@r0b3rt330]

thankyou! Where's the picture it fits so perfectly with the song!

[@grahamwolstenholme567]

Song of free men awesome :) I wish I was there

[@zevedeidraghita4637]

god i love this song

[@rjart4]

ME TOO ME HEARTY!!

[@zevedeidraghita4637]

:)

[@myfavoritethespian8199]

i like this one

[@TheTrapper99]

great

[@sonyahassani8333]

This is such a nice song 😊 and I know the story

[@Man-fp8vp]

Proud to be south Aussie

[@redwolf7929]

Love that song I sing it withy accordion. BUT WHAT IS THE PAINTING ACCOMPANING IT AS ID love aprint for me house.

[@marknewnham4326]

The master

[@syncetia3881]

Put on Subtitles. Enjoy!

[@drhkleinert3245]

Best version is by the Dubliners, sung by Barney McKenna, a real Sailor and Fisherman who brings heart, soul and fun in that Shanty, including the fiddle of John Sheahan...

[@IvanStrelnikov]

Leaving SALLY BROWN behind! :D

[@BeamRider100]

I remember singing this at school when I did a couple of weeks of year 7 in South Australia before going back to NSW, I honestly thought it was their state anthem. I thought they were saying heathen kings, not rolling kings.

[@tremorsfan]

Something I've often wondered about sea shanties: Was the crew pulling the whole time, or did they only pull when the chorus (the heave haul).

[@garhartt]

I was born in the wrong century.

[@Andante75]

Gadred Tanioso No, your born in the 21st century who happens to like sea shantys

[@swahi2702]

@Here to comment/watch weird stuff Being alive back then would be very unpleasant

[@daltwinsey3429]

Swahi it seems fun but getting pillaged sunk or well getting very ill and dying

[@GaiusCaligula234]

@Eminem you know that sea shanties are still extremely popular on ships, right?

[@robertgreen6027]

Brilliant! generations wont know what this is soon.

[@UrbaneSugar]

Madla shanty heheh :))

[@Spudtron98]

The theme of the Clipper routes.

[@rizzmb3016]

Oh my fucking god. I heard some fucking guy singing this song on one of Nano's videos. I googled the hook and found it here. Lmao, god I love the internet.

[@papascorch6869]

truly an amazing place

[@kylecahill8072]

What other platforms is this song on? I like Kimber’s Men’s rendition of this song, but this is better imo. However, I can’t find it on Spotify or anywhere else on KZbin for that matter. Is this the only publication of this song?

[@gunamerstravels]

The British and Irish Lions.

[@MarmoMossBoll]

imagine if this was animated but wacky animation, like funny

[@CombineWatermelon]

building a boat in gmod to this

[@topslbill.shantysandseasto8135]

Where can I get this album?

[@sirbudimon5748]

Australia It is my whiff to get there help me but Eva from Australia I am from the Republic of Moldova Eastern Europe

[@paulcarpenter8152]

I’m bound for Botany Bay…

[@otakujome8162]

man, i wanna be a pirate

[@otakujome8162]

well, im not a pirate jet, but im singing pirate songs at partys like hell, might even upload some shanties i sang with out school band

[@ExplodedMrT]

Otaku Jome It'd be interesting to see Jome the Otaku Pirate

[@ElmutHansi]

Otaku Jome Dork

[@otakujome8162]

Ye lowly man, you can't stand up to my power, and i would definitely win over you in a pirate battle royal

[@ElmutHansi]

You sing pirate songs at parties? How lame is THAT?! You're probably one of those "cosplayers" too...

[@HUN73RK1LL3R]

Channel night anyone?

[@ponkkaa]

I first heard this sung by the Corries. I think I like this version better

[@gilkyhibs3544]

Canny beat the corries haha Loch Nagar is my favourite song

[@runnyhunny786]

👍

[@tobyque9399]

I wish the philippines (my country) also had sailing ships for trading in the past...

[@jrapcdaikari]

we did... but they were Spanish Galleons from Mexico to Manila

[@scallamander4899]

What's the name of the painting?

[@Stubby1085]

One thing that grieves my mind. Is south Australia worth the fuss 😊

[@4oWhat]

Someone know the art in the video?