Seán Dagher - Rio Grande - Just The Shanty 14

[@commie3000]

This is by far the best version I've ever heard of Rio Grande. Sean's version just feels so optimistic and gears you up to take a grand voyage.

[@onejediboi]

Your voice hasnt changed a damn bit since AC black flag, and I love it.

[@BrunoMaricFromZagreb]

He's a treasure.

[@pouyabaharifar6778]

Had friends who immediately recognised his after like 7 years. He's a legend by all means

[@benspiller455]

Why would it change it’s not like he was a child when he did black flag

[@LaviniaDeMortalium]

Ahhhh Rio Grande's my favorite shanty! After AC4 I dove deep into Shanty's and fell head over heels for them. This is the only shanty my family knows, and while we're all at different stages in our lives and don't always agree on everything, I loved to crack this song out at parties, and watch each and every person light up with recognition as they joined in as one big chorus. It's magical hearing 30, 40 people sing a song together, and that togetherness is something I've really missed in the last year and a half. I'm looking forward to Christmas this year where all of us will be together, and you bet your sweet bippy we're singing this to the eaves! Edit: I was so excited I made a bunch of typos xD

[@SeanDagher]

Yes, the people-singing-together part is the best. I can't wait for that to start again.

[@nickvandergragt653]

I feel the same way.. My 8 kids and I would sing sea shanties when they all lived at home while doing dishes after supper. We've loved shanties since way before they where cool, so it is making me homesick listening to these. Although we always sang it REE ooo not RIIoooo.. but to each his own.

[@chrisj.3978]

The pronunciation of Rio actually gave me an idea for a sci-fi version of this song…in a universe where spacefarers sing shanties for work and entertainment, they sing about being “Bound for the Io Grand”

[@SeanDagher]

I love that idea. Imagine sci-fi versions of all of these.

[@josiahzabel8596]

look at Rowan The Bard kzbin.info and Carmen Miranda's Ghost- kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWSXl4akf7ODY5Y that's the closest that already exists

[@josiahzabel8596]

@@SeanDagher look at Rowan The Bard kzbin.info and Carmen Miranda's Ghost- kzbin.info/www/bejne/rWSXl4akf7ODY5Y that's the closest that already exists

[@bigdawg215]

I sing this to my toddler at night to help him sleep

[@benspiller455]

This sounds like a song that would keep him awake.

[@traditionalfolkmusic9709]

@@benspiller455 This song has long been used as a lullabye. A decent example is Paul Robeson's version of the song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qprKYaeQlpVng7c

[@benspiller455]

@@traditionalfolkmusic9709 trust me nobody’s going to sleep listening to that

[@hollow6189]

@@benspiller455 the toddler is gonna climb out the crib and set off on a sea voyage to the Rio Grande

[@panther-nk2hn]

POV: you're the child of a sailor Legit been thinking about what kind of songs I'd sing to my child to lull them to sleep. Shanties would definitely be on that list.

[@benspiller455]

This is the BEST shanty! Sometimes I find myself yelling ‘Way, for Rio!’ in public lol

[@josma610]

I think it's VERY rare to hear a voice that distinctive and especially that clean in a live performance! Please keep on singing Seán! :]

[@MrFORDprefect101]

As always sir, a Superb performance. Now to go listen to it a few thousand times for you. Keep up the great shantying sir.

[@matt1240]

This shanty was stuck in my head for the past week and now he releases this just today, what a pleasant coincidence

[@calebmurphy9406]

Everything that is special and moving about sea shanties is in this song and you make it live and breathe. I don't know if other people feel what I feel when I listen to this, and I don't even think I know what it is, but it's beautiful. Thank you for making this.

[@charlesmorton7944]

As an old, old salt I remember shanties still being sung at various tasks. The term "bully" , incidentally means friend or shipmate.

[@pagan_purpose]

I am from Brazil and since childhood we study how the products produced in the colonies since the 1500s traveled across the entire globe, like sugar and coffee. And all those prducts left Brazil through ports, like the ones in the state Rio Grande do Norte. (In contrast with another state Rio Grande do Sul.)

[@maxwelltaylor521]

Thank you soooo much. I’ve been waiting for this. One of my favorite shanties in Black Flag

[@mrderpy0120]

I can’t help but move along with this song

[@BardofCornwall]

Thanks for doing what you do, Sean! You're an absolute legend.

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

Didn't I see you in Atlanta not long ago? Absolutely marvelous performance.

[@SeanDagher]

You did! Thanks. I had a great time in Atlanta.

[@sonyahannah]

As a Texan/Californian, I'm used to "ree-yo" as the pronunciation -- but I love the exotic touch given by your pronunciation. Largely thanks to you, I have a fairly new playlist simply entitled "Ahoy!" [The fever could also be malaria or yellow fever.]

[@tarjaikola]

I was confused with the pronounciation, so thanks for this comment!

[@SeanDagher]

Yes, these sailor songs have a tradition of deliberately mis-pronounced words. I try not to be disrespectful about it, but I think it's funny, and it is meant to be self-deprecating.

[@sonyahannah]

@@SeanDagher Waaaaay back in the 60s, the Kingston Trio's "Early in the Morning" ["What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?"] was one of the first songs I learned on my guitar, and they pronounced it "ear-lie," which I loved -- and faithfully reproduce to this day.

[@GPASG]

Here I go listening to this for another million times now that I have the option to do so easily.

[@Arthurvotto]

I was actually born in Rio Grande - RS... I say that the golden sands still flow to the sea and are a major issue to the sailors to this day!

[@THEJACKTARS]

Happy memories of Cornish road trip with this playing! Thank you Sean!

[@dragonwithamonocle]

"Cap'n, look! Off the port bow! THE WHITE WHALE!" I listened to this shanty many a time while hunting that elusive devil fish XD What a great tune, I love these so much.

[@SeanDagher]

Thanks Dapper. Great reference.

[@LordFlashheart]

The best song ever recorded. If you disagree you are objectively wrong.

[@andreasgregoras]

Exceptional work!

[@leonniels7527]

No wonder most videos does not even have 1 Dislike, simply wonderful!

[@johncayley7838]

Amazing as always! One of the best.

[@edfarage570]

finally! my favorite song. thanks for posting this separate Sean!

[@dinnosailo4840]

Edward Kenway brough me here in his Jackdaw 😁

[@scrimbles2973]

Ooh this is a good one!

[@LarboardAnimations9660]

Love this one!

[@leonniels7527]

Amazing!

[@WPUpioneer]

Id love to see you do "Row me bully boys"

[@romanempire4495]

Wow, you have a great singing voice and still sound the same as in Black Flag. Awesome.

[@mbsjanetelizabeth]

Thank you for this version, Seán. Wouldn't the fever be malaria? The salient feature of TB is a cough more than a fever. Malaria would be a severe risk since they are bound for the tropics ... Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil, "where the river flows down golden sand". Thank you very much for all your shanty recordings btw, I am using many of them in the U3A shanties course I run 😀😎🙏🏻🤗

[@benspiller455]

Sean I was wondering if Ubisoft asked you back to do some more singing on their next AC, would you say yes?

[@SeanDagher]

Of course!

[@rEdQUINOX]

This is so good! You don't happen to have an arrangement written out for those background chorus parts? I'd love to try my hand at singing it myself, but unfortunately I suck at singing along to anything but the lead of whatever I'm hearing.

[@SeanDagher]

I keep meaning to put out a song book but I'm not sure how.

[@joaoreguffe6349]

What "Rio Grande" may be this lyrics about? (Greetings from Rio Grande do Sul seaport, Brasil)

[@rehanasaleem4511]

gorgeous 😊😊😊😊

[@DARESMP5]

Take the ship and dissappear with rum girl and that amazing song

[@dadeusz3083]

get those dogs, no mercy for those Melon Apple mango thiefs

[@redravenrages6321]

1.75x playback speed is baller on this song.

[@SeanDagher]

Gonna try that.

[@anapaulacabral3881]

instead of work songs, they are now drinking/drunk songs

[@SeanDagher]

That's a kind of work.

[@mbsjanetelizabeth]

I drink when I sing them too but it's the songs themselves that intoxicate me. And it's usually water I'm drinking... 😂

[@panther-nk2hn]

My English blood is pumping, time to go colonize someplace that doesn't have a flag.

[@TheLeandro222]

A pronúncia correta não seria Rio ao invés de Raio ? Já que Rio é uma palavra em português e espanhol..