Sea Shanties Documentary

The story of Britain's maritime past has a hidden history of shanties and sea songs, and choirmaster Gareth Malone has been travelling Britain's coast to explore this unique heritage.
From dedicated traditionalists to groundbreaking recording artists, Gareth meets a variety of sea-singers from across the country.

[@winstonpan6051]

"They have since gone out of fashion" People in 2021: *no*

[@avoidant560]

Ayyyyy mate

[@SlayPlenty]

3years later back in fashion babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[@andym9571]

Finally ..the 21st century produces some decent music !

[@Roadrun98]

Nope, tik tok has spoilt them for me with their awful autotuning. Shanties should be sung in the pubs and on the seas. Not staring at your phone..

[@martincoatham4276]

@@andym9571 I kikkkkk

[@K1S7Z3]

One time I was at Walmart in the middle of the night and I witnessed some employees moving the shelves around and singing a song about rolling back the shelves in propper sea shanty fashion. I don't think that the spirit of sea shanties will ever die because when people are doing work that requires a rythum together than singing what happens.

[@Sasha-ff5ce]

walmart shanties

[@buchling1]

Shelving shanties, how awesome is that? Thanks for telling that story.

[@brogle437]

omg that’s amazing

[@avalondreaming1433]

Wish you had recorded it!!!

[@K1S7Z3]

@@avalondreaming1433 so do I! But I didn't want them to be disturbed or think I was narcing on them to walmart

[@davidhouston-goudge7905]

2021: The year of the sea shanty

[@thomasbustamante9110]

What a time to be alive

[@robinruppert1554]

This year is better than expected

[@Liftr_tk]

I just don’t like how people are just following a trend but to those who actually love them cheers to them

[@gug1297]

No it was 2020 so Isolated people were

[@deyonvandraanen7492]

Agreed, a time for unity alongst the bois

[@ConnollyUK]

"Songs that have since fallen out of fashion..." Black Flag: Hold my rum!

[@frederikkfoglfrey8664]

ShantyTok 2021: Hold our Grogs!

[@Belznis]

I too fell in love with the songs thanks to old movies and black flag. But I think they should make more games like these and try to use historical accuracy by playing them according to tasks being done too.

[@frederikkfoglfrey8664]

Black Flag was a masterpiece indeed and for me the most enjoyable part was sailing with the shanties. I think i did not fast travel once😅

[@Belznis]

@@frederikkfoglfrey8664 same here, I even got on nerves of my friends telling them to listen to the songs ha ha

[@frederikkfoglfrey8664]

@@Belznis it was the first game i played on PS4 and first play through was even on PS3. Crazy how time runs... would like to play it on PS5 again

[@solidzaku2]

I was just listening to this to pass the time, but when he started singing Away to Rio, I laughed out loud. I was on a cruise on the USS Wasp going around the tip of South America. During our crossing the equator ceremony, I sang sea shanties for the rest of the crew, and one of them was Rio Grande. Great stuff.

[@BoundingMain]

But did you mispronounce "Rio" the way it is supposed to be?

[@JohnLemieux]

"Songs that have since fallen out of fashion" 2021: Hold my beer.

[@henrywebster1975]

Hold my rum

[@krakenonesixgaming6061]

I'm a deckhand on the Mississippi, and I listen to sea shanties every single day. I believe that they should be kept alive in every seafaring country. Keep a singin' ye salty dogs!

[@miscme6046]

God bless you and your crew your doing the lords work

[@barefootanimist]

Shanties and traditional music will never die, so long as there are people who can pass them to successive generations. Those songs reverberate in the hearts of some folks around the globe.

[@zimnizzle]

I teared up a little when I heard the captain’s voice singing... It’s just so incredible that it wasn’t lost, isn’t it? It still exists in the Library of Congress because some man in the 1920s recognized the captain was part of a bygone era, and knew it was important to record even just a bit of what he knew. And even thought both men could have been lost to time and forgotten, the wax recording ended up in the Library of Congress and saved. Amazing.

[@elainebmack]

I'm grateful to historians and musicians like Gareth Malone and these great singers who are documenting these songs.that could easily be lost forever.

[@Maikelswe1985]

2021 has ensured they will live on the internet forever no worries

[@JonathanToolonie]

I'm half-expecting to see The Longest John in this doco.

[@kitsiewr]

Please Dear God, NO ! They sound very pretty, but the traditional groups heard here are much more representative of the genre.

[@HolyFreakinDragonSlayer]

@@kitsiewr what's wrong with the longest John's? You do realise they performed with Cornish group Fisherman's friends and have been performing folk songs and sea shantys for donkeys years.. before either got 'trendy' last week

[@DragonFang253D]

@@kitsiewr no matter if it sounds "pretty" or not. They are part of the genre whether you like it or not, music doesn't need any more gate keepers, please sit down and let people enjoy what they want to enjoy.

[@joeanthony2875]

I completely agree, both groups are great shanty singers and I have a lot of love for them both. Personally I prefer fishermen's friends because they feel more genuine. If you ever go to port Issac and listen to them then you'll realise just how beautiful sea shanties really are.

[@HolyFreakinDragonSlayer]

@@joeanthony2875 groups like fisherman's friends and Kimbers men are genuine sailer/fisherman (hence why the human brain tells you its more authentic) The longest John's do hail from fishing families though

[@williamblackfyre4866]

I got addicted to shanties when I first saw Jaws and heard Quint singing Spanish Ladies. AC4 Black Flag was a godsend to teach me new ones, I would just sail around to run through the playlist constantly ever toggling them off. I'm pleased that the younger generation has discovered them and introduced me to the Wellerman, being a NZ shanty, I never heard of it.

[@Gothenburg1]

I believe its the most underrated music in the world, because it just completly influenced the whole actual music univers and pop culture. Everything was already there. They just created the modern music structure. So I appreciate they took some time to speak about this music culture.

[@michiganscythian2445]

Despite being written by a Canadian, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” has become Michigan’s unofficial state song and ode to the Great Lakes and the men on the ships these inland seas. That and Stan Rogers “White Squall” have become modern “lake shanties” for the Great Lakes

[@stephengalindo6340]

I absolutely love shanties

[@genericinterneter]

Well good time to listen

[@HolyFreakinDragonSlayer]

You have exquisite taste

[@stephengalindo6340]

@@genericinterneter hahaha I'm abt 6years into shanties

[@wilsonaja3203]

I watched this after playing black flag

[@timb.3171]

It's the same choire isn't it?

[@aidanwalsh8049]

No the guys who did black Flag’s name is Sean Dagher and he does a lot of Sea shanties with the same people

[@grantsambrooks6878]

I never thought a video game would spark a love for such an obscure form of music.

[@Patch5555]

Mike Hunt I really got into shanties because of sea of thieves, me and my friends sing them while playing and it’s a lot of fun

[@seraphielprime5092]

Neigh, ye not alone mate!

[@carlb5396]

Something else to remember while listening to all the new versions of these songs, is that it would have been a vast array of ages of men singing them, from those just old enough to be on board, all the way up to the career sailors who'd been aboard for years. Its one of the reasons i love the ensemble shanties off tiktok, it brings a massive array together

[@ChuckCanada1]

I don't like Monday Morning, I would rather stay in bed. When I'm toddling off to work I wish that I was dead. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday brings me no delight. I don't like Monday morning I would rather have Saturday night. 38:00

[@user-bp9zj9xs2y]

That was kind of heavy

[@abisarh7031]

My mother's family is from Nova Scotia. I grew up hearing a lot of these songs growing up.

[@5.7moy]

I live on the east coast of New Brunswick and I have heard these songs every week for 12 years that I’ve been alive.

[@kevindonohue2912]

I went to the Gaelic College on Cape Breton as a kid (long ago) and we sang waulking songs - I think waulking songs and shanties both fall under the rubric of work songs, and I imagine there was probably influence back and forth. I'm glad the traditions are still alive.

[@viciouslady1340]

In Newfoundland too the best Canadian music is from the Maritimes

[@jimmycyclone1665]

Great doco mate. Kimber's Men and Fisherman's Friends are two of the biggest name's in the sea shanty community at present. Fisherman's Friends have a recording contract with Universal Music and are turning out great stuff in the studio which is immaculately produced and captures the authenticity of their performances to a tee. So the genre is very much alive in my opinion. And anyone who's ever been treated to a live rendition of a sea shanty group in full harmony will testify how beautiful and provocative this kind of music is. I also think Jim McGeehan from Tynemouth nails it when he says that sea shanty's are true folk music, but sadly a lot of the folk movement has forgotten the sea shanty tradition, or at least it is probably not as prevalent in folk music these days as it should be. "These children.. being introduced to it this way.. you never know, when they get older - middle aged - they'll remember all that... and they may try doing it themselves..." - timeless and cross-cultural statement.

[@TheFrostyBrit]

Not ropes, lines!

[@Platinum_Squid]

Aye, but he’s a well meaning landsman so I think we can avast the keelhauling.

[@LincolnLagger]

But it is a rope

[@WaddedBliss]

It'd be good if the producers put the names of the songs in the documentary.

[@nicolajhardbass1608]

Everyone else in my age: Pop, Rap Me: "singing shantys"

[@helenrumjanek2415]

Thanks , to Scotsman, Nathan Evans for reviving the Sea Shanty 'The Wellerman' which went viral on TikTok .Amazing to see how many people joined in!!

[@yourbore]

His version brought me here

[@MK_2023.]

'for reviving the Sea Shanty'...it never died, it's always been there. There are groups that have been around for ages that only sing Sea Shantys and sea songs.

[@yourbore]

@@MK_2023. it wasn't popular at all. So yes, he did revive it.

[@MK_2023.]

@@yourbore I didn't say it was popular, I said it has always been there. Although depending on where you live in the world it can be more prominent and well known. So no, he didn't revive it.

[@yourbore]

@@MK_2023. he actually did...he put it on the charts instead of an old man choir where only their family go to see them. So single handedly he revived them. When is the last time a sea shanty was on the tip five on apply music, Spotify and other streaming platforms? Thats right. Never. He made it popular. They were there...yea, but he put them in the charts.

[@jwhbos]

"[Sea shanties have] since fallen out of fashion..." 2021: *ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAUI! ME BOYS, ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAUI! WE'RE HOMEWARD BOUND FROM THE ARCTIC GROUND, ROLLING DOWN TO OLD MAUI!*

[@dune_strider3055]

And we don’t give a damn when we drink our rum with the girls of old Maui

[@adventureswithaurora]

XD YES!!!

[@Nunavuter1]

Thank you for this. You can't link to videos on KZbin, so I'd just say look up Stan Rogers Barrett's Privateers. The song is a Canadian sea chantey. The Halifax he sings of is the one in Nova Scotia, not the one in the UK. The sailors long to return to Sherbrooke town. (A town in Quebec).

[@BoundingMain]

It is not a sea shanty, to clarify. It is a well-loved maritime tune, and it is a modern tune never used by tall ships in the age of sail.

[@jahjahjah213]

The version by The Real McKenzies is really good

[@scottdurno7181]

The Sherbrooke in this shanty is actually Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia, Canada.

[@Nunavuter1]

@@scottdurno7181I should have known that. My bad.

[@elizabethannscarborough4848]

Thank you so much for making this wonderful program. I've been participating in shanty sings since I moved to the US Pacific NW and learning about so many different kinds of shanties and sea songs was so much fun. I especially liked learning more about the fish wives and gutting girls. While on a trip to Scotland, my hostess's fiance took us to the Fish Wives' Museum and it was a revelation. Prior to that time I'd only heard of fish wives as loud scolding women, never as the ladies who kept their families together doing Herculean jobs while their husbands were at sea. I also especially enjoyed the Snow Shoveling Shanty story of the rescue of the stranded fishermen by their fellow citizens in the grip of a blizzard. I wish there was a CD available, or perhaps a songbook, for other lovers of shanties to enjoy the music honored by the documentary.

[@cityassassin]

Wait, hold the phone.. There's an English version of the volga boatmen?!

[@isaks3243]

it is fun that these kinds of songs are really making a resurgence in our culture and more people are singing them for every day. I made my own sea shantie playlist on spotify just to accompany me when i start my new job at a ship yard, wish me luck boys

[@em-jd4do]

good luck, i'm sure you'll make friends!

[@gloriastephenson7650]

Best of Canadian luck to you!

[@isaks3243]

@@gloriastephenson7650 got a negative answer =( have now gotten roughly 60 negative answers over the last 4 months and i'm seriously running out of companies to contact.

[@owlis2328]

English Seaside town lad here, moved to Calgary by some strange twist of fate. Oh how I miss the sea. I wish I were sailing and singing shanties with the bois.

[@adreabrooks11]

38:35 delighted me! You could tell that the pink-clad Maggie's song took blue-clad Maggie right back to those fine old days of friendship and youth. What a wonderful moment to capture!

[@krzysztofjaskolski6808]

What is the name of that songbook? -> 2:36 Thank you

[@glittertechnic]

Not sure if you're still interested but the book is The Sea Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties by Richard Runciman Terry. You can read it at www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20774

[@mumandtwins]

South Australia here LOL that roped me in

[@FreezerSpaces]

38:17 I don't like Monday morning I would rather stay in bed // when I'm toddling off to work and wishing I was dead // Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday brings me no delight // I don't like Monday morning I would rather have Saturday night still relevant XD

[@richH1625]

2:11 The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties by Richard Runciman Terry ? www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20774 3:30 Bernie Davis www.berniedavis.eu/ 10:50 Jim Mageean en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mageean 14:50 The Keelers 18:38 Captain Mark Page www.bbc.co.uk/wear/content/articles/2008/10/14/sea_shanties_feature.shtml 21:50 Filey Fishermen's Choir

[@davidwright7193]

The “Shoals of herring” has been miss attributed many times but I would expect the BBC to do better as the Salford born Ewan McColl wrote it for the BBC Radio Ballard Singing the Fishing.

[@sandramorey2529]

David wright: We have the entire Singing the Fishing on CD. Lots of wonderful lore and history. Shoals of Herring and North Sea Holes worth learning & singing. Ewan and Peggy did several series on work that no longer exists. The only one that comes to mind is The Traveling People, where Ewan wrote I'm a Freeborn Man.

[@BoundingMain]

RIP Joe Stead, former member of Kimber's Men.

[@musicloverlondon6070]

There was a sad note from him attached to one of his videos on YT in 2017 detailing how he had recovered from cancer and had decided to resign from the group. He said that they told him they hadn't missed him when he was in hospital and wouldn't miss him in the future either! He had founded and put 15 years of his life into the group so it was a very sad end, I thought. What a thing to say to him, especially after he had just recovered from cancer. There may be more to it than meets the eye, but still ... 🙁.

[@remove574]

@@musicloverlondon6070 🙁

[@randomvielleuse527]

@@musicloverlondon6070 Oh. Golly. What a dreadful thing to say to anyone. :(

[@timb.3171]

Isn't this the choir that sang for AC4?

[@BoundingMain]

Nope. They put together a studio band of non-maritime performers for the game. Lubbers ...

[@XLseattle]

Maggie's song at around minutes 39 - a common sentiment: Come Monday morning, I would rather stay in bed When I’m toddling off to work and wishing I was dead Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Brings me no delight I do not like Monday mornings I would rather have Saturday nights

[@ajaxengineco]

Just shows that the idea of hating Mondays is at least 100 years old.

[@capriottimultimedia]

0:50 oh stripey is definitely the bass Edit: 1:00 oh christ they're all basses

[@juhiimi05]

Im from Hungary, and i can't stop listening to shanties ever since black flag introduced me to them. There is something in them that i can't find in today's music.

[@nathanpape1169]

A couple of the best sea shanties are Randy o Dandy and Leave Her Jhonny.

[@terrygunderson5681]

Leave Her Johnny for sure! The classic Drunken Sailor is my personal favorite but slower than traditional, most likely weighing anchor rather than raising sails.

[@leiladekwatro3147]

dont forget eliza lee

[@interestedbystander196]

Blow the Man Down

[@CostcoComrade]

Fish in the sea anyone?

[@frankwerner6355]

The "Peking", A German Flying P. clipper, mentioned at the very beginning, has been brought back from the US., beautifully restored, and can now be seen in Hamburg harbour.

[@mug5022]

Fish in the sea is my favorite.

[@haydenlittle4717]

Your profile pic is my favorite

[@CodyAndrewR]

I will single-handedly defeat covid through the power of sea shanties, this documentary, and Nelson's Blood.

[@interestedbystander196]

Wouldn't do you any harm...

[@pete9503]

No you won’t - wear a mask and get vaccine.

[@kimberlyannekeegan1169]

"They have since gone out of fashion" 2021: SOON MAY THE WELLER MAN COME TO BRING US SUGAR AND TEA AND RUM

[@mpeekay76]

This had so much heart. Was not planning to watch the whole thing but it's so good.Great job to everyone involved in the making of this.

[@musicloverlondon6070]

Agreed. Sea shanties have a power and authenticity about them. I think that's why they've proved more popular recently when it's so hard to gauge the authenticity of anything at the moment. Hope their current vogue doesn't make them end up being corporatised and insipid. The programme gave a great insight into their development too. Gareth Malone is better known in the UK for programmes about work-based choirs.

[@aquarius5264]

definitely one of the toughest groups of people in history, no doubt about it

[@dfpguitar]

Gareth is quite wrong saying that we can never ever hear work songs. They exist in places where men (and women) are reduced to mere units in arduous group labour, usually done for survival not for expendable income. You can here them being sung by men ploughing soil by hand, by tribal women gathering food or processing food like pounding grains. It is a good thing that less people have to work so hard now, but many people still do and in our "developed" world they often tend to be either very solitary or in places like factories where they are too strict to allow it.

[@hadasdubrawsky1026]

Like the slave songs--'spirituals'--sung in the fields

[@TRHARTAmericanArtist]

A good bass really brings the group together.

[@STARGAUD]

sail ships are the ultimate use of renewable energy.

[@nicktombs1876]

Very good programme but I was hoping he might have mentioned 3 score and 10, song about a big storm along the east coast, and fancy not popping to Grimsby, once the biggest fishing port in the world, hauling crab pots a mile off Port Issac not really the same as men going to Iceland, Bering Sea, Falklands, Newfoundland, Faroe Islands and all the other long distance fishing grounds to put food on the table

[@AspiringDryad]

Yeahh, I kind of missed all of Lincolnshire here. At least the Humber got a shoutout in the Scottish women's song!

[@TheWorldofRobbie]

At 20:00 they've got a shot of the iPod with the song in the background, but they forgot to film the iPod actually playing 🤣 it's paused the whole time LOL

[@seantig479]

Thank you for sharing this seafaring documentary. The stories, shanties and people are solid gold. Sacrifice and courage give these tunes weathered authenticity. Gareth Malone is a treasure!

[@TheEnvelopeOZ]

Joe Rogan and Elon Musk discussed listening to Sea Shanties songs and how much they liked it.

[@daweshorizon]

Gareth did an episode of the TV show 'Who Do You Think You Are' and found out that he was related to Dan Lowry, a Liverpool impresario who ran a music hall frequented by the regular influxes of sailors and merchantmen. After months at sea they probably weren't there just for the music. I'll say no more. Dan Lowry does get a mention however in the (Liverpool) Spinners version of Whip Jamboree recorded in the early 1960's; it's an old sailors' song the sailors would have sung when they got home and is not a shanty, but a fore bitter. I sing a version of this song, including the mention of Dan Lowry, in my band (duo). Check us out on Facebook as The Dronny Bottom Buskers. if there is interest out there we would happily do our take on Whip Jamboree, based on the Spinners' version. Thanks for posting this video, very interesting! Love and peace.

[@chrisramm1]

To be honest I am with Gareth, when it comes to inspiration, the proms can keep its all be it rather fun and splendid atmosphere, which I totally do not dislike, and give me the rustic purity of true British tradition. |Just in the same way that I love my Gig rowing, over Shell rowing, there is something more than special about shanties.

[@DragonGold121.]

cant believe the internet found my favorite music genre

[@XLseattle]

Noticed all the ganseys - the jumpers the old seamen are wearing are traditional sea-going wool equipment - necessary to keep warm while at sea.

[@hooleyqueen]

I wish he would listen to Liam Clancy (from the famous Clancy Brothers of the 1960s, since died unfortunately) Listen to him sing "Home From the Sea" a beautiful song about the dangerous life of a fisherman out on the sea.

[@deborahmcgee7970]

O yes it’s very good I love it

[@TheRealBoroNut]

No, it's about the selfless dedication bravery and personal sacrifice of the upaid volunteers of the RNLI. A fisherman's life is dangerous indeed, but they don't just rescue fishermen. They answer the call of anyone in peril on the sea. " On a cold winter's night, With the storm at its height, The lifeboat answered the call..."

[@kevinrees5855]

I am finding old French songs that I think were French shanties. I am from Southwest Louisiana and we were once much a sea faring people !

[@PINTandDALE]

There are many, many traditional French shanties -- before Covid, France hosted huge sea shanty festivals.

[@drunkcatphil9911]

Those songs for heroes are remarkable, as a country we really should make more of them. Would be a fantastic way to keep history alive, to inspire the next generation and bind people together. Wonderful stuff.

[@adamwithey8194]

Gareth Malone the English choirmaster and broadcaster was the first man to watch the main ''Celtic Woman'' instalments as part of BBC FOUR's favourite programmes between 2014 and 2015. The musical ensemble originally came from UK and Ireland and all over the world. Saturday 12th April 2014 - Celtic Woman (Chloe Agnew, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Lisa Kelly, Mairead Nesbitt and Orla Fallon) Wednesday 16th April 2014 - Celtic Woman - A New Journey (Chloe Agnew, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Lisa Kelly, Mairead Nesbitt, Hayley Westenra and Orla Fallon) Sunday 4th May 2014 - Celtic Woman - Songs from the Heart (Chloe Agnew, Lisa Kelly, Mairead Nesbitt, Lynn Hillary and Alex Sharpe) Friday 16th May 2014 - Celtic Woman - Believe (Chloe Agnew, Lisa Lambe, Mairead Nesbitt and Lisa Kelly) Saturday 13th December 2014 - Celtic Woman - A Celtic Christmas or A Christmas Celebration (Chloe Agnew, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Lisa Kelly, Mairead Nesbitt and Orla Fallon) Wednesday 17th December 2014 - Celtic Woman - Home for Christmas (Chloe Agnew, Susan McFadden, Méav Ní Mhaolchatha, Lisa Lambe, and Máiréad Nesbitt) Wednesday 11th February 2015 - Celtic Woman - Emerald: Musical Gems (Chloe Agnew, Lisa Lambe, Mairead Nesbitt and Susan MacFadden) Which one is Gareth Malone's favourite Celtic Woman instalment? Celtic Woman (2004) Celtic Woman - A New Journey (2006) Celtic Woman - Songs from the Heart (2009) Celtic Woman - Believe (2011) Celtic Woman - A Celtic Christmas or A Christmas Celebration (2006 and 2007) Celtic Woman - Home for Christmas (2012 and 2013) Celtic Woman - Emerald: Musical Gems (2014)

[@andym9571]

Subtitles don't really recognize old English

[@t.c.bramblett617]

I've always loved these and I'm so happy that they are having another moment. Like all classic folk songs, they are timeless.

[@Realalbertcrowley]

I've been really depressed lately and this short film cheered me up a bit if anyone knows more videos like this on KZbin let me know please

[@andym9571]

Cheer up. Better times on the way.

[@Realalbertcrowley]

@@andym9571 i hope so but my life isn't good never has been

[@andym9571]

@@Realalbertcrowleysame for a lot of people. Hope things change for you.

[@Realalbertcrowley]

@@andym9571 it won't trust me it won't

[@thomasjohnpaine8443]

It's 2:00 in South Florida and I just got done watching this wonderful documentary. What a wonderful piece of work, thank you for that.

[@garygullikson6349]

We all owe a lot to the men who sailed and toiled on wind-driven ships, and sang these work songs. Thanks to those who keep the songs and lore of sailing ships alive.

[@adamwithey8194]

01:45 As seen on the Last Night of the Proms, Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia of British Sea Songs in which they are performing at Royal Albert Hall in London as a tribute to the Battle of Trafalgar, this song that the Celtic Woman member Mairead Nesbitt reminded us in the whole community of music taken from a new journey at Slane Castle, Ireland. She played a medley called Shenandoah - The Pacific Slope/Reels. It's a salty tradition in the world of Sea Shanty tunes. view this website:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXvSf5drbt5sbpY

[@amustardseed6748]

I just wish I knew the name of each shanty so I could sing and listen to them

[@amustardseed6748]

@@billybatts9491 Searched up the lyrics and got the shanty’s! Have been listening to them for a while now. Just went back to the documentary and never saw your comment beforehand. And I was just surprised when someone replied. Figured I could say thanks!

[@Johnny_Blaze]

Came to see Kimber's men...was not disappointed (but they are much younger in this...and RIP Joe)

[@TheScoopGorrilla]

Looking at these old movies looks like white privilege is called hard work

[@originaljazzgirl]

LOVE IT, really well done. Please stop perpetuating the misuse of the word because the presentation is otherwise intelligent ! - A shanty is a small shack. A chantey / chanty is a sea song.

[@zoewilkins2896]

And shanty is probably a near phonetic spelling of the way people from many places would have said it, or would say it now, for that matter, even if they were saying it was a chant(y). Northern Brits, for example, don’t tend to use that long Ah sound. Can’t imagine sailors from eg Liverpool or other more northern ports pronouncing it chaarnty.. Some other parts of UK, yes, but I wouldn’t think that it only ever had the one southern-vowel pronunciation.

[@randomvielleuse527]

Shanty is the most common spelling used for the work songs sung originally on tall ships, but chantey or chanty is also accepted.

[@jenlee5744]

Look up Danny Spooner, (1936-2017), who brought this music to Melbourne Australia in the 60s and will never be forgotten.

[@kitsiewr]

We heard Danny sing when he came to Mystic, a great singer and a dear man!

[@McCRBen]

If you went to the National Folk Festivals he was there. Enjoyed singing with him mostly on the choruses.

[@RobertSlover]

lovely! thanks for uploading i can hear so many connections to american blues and jazz.

[@ProfesserLuigi]

Could you elaborate?

[@RobertSlover]

@@ProfesserLuigi the pentatonic scale. the "blues scale" with a flatted fifth note.

[@akatosh2795]

14:24 - 14:54 : Does anyone know what shanty that was? I cannot find it on Google sadly.

[@xirensixseo]

so im from Singapore. a country built on immigrants. i have basically zero feelings of patriotism in any way. i feel like one of the reasons is because there are no folk songs of heroes or anything, and if there were, they were all lost.

[@jmr0411]

21:43 time stamp for later

[@recumbentcountry]

I did a course in public school, called cemetery studies, where we would visit cemeteries and learn about our past generations, on how you people died years ago. very fascinating to me, and I still visit country cemeteries to learn about local communities.

[@elliebells2796]

Sang what shall we do with the drunken sailor in girl guides when we travelled or went camping. Never knew it was a sea shanty.

[@RainCheck797]

I've loved sea shanties for year's finally thanks to tiktok I can feed my addiction

[@jeremiahgabriel5709]

I think my favorite think about hearing the original recording, as not even amateur singer myself, is that the dude obviously wasn't a singer how we would define it now. But he was still singing because it fit the work he did, he enjoyed it, and it was in his soul to sing it. So he did. I think that's maybe an element missing with the current re-movement: the idea that one must be excellent or classically trained, in order to shanty. And while it may Sound Better (although that's subjective anyhow).... it's awesome for everyone and anyone to participate and just feel the thing.

[@nbenefiel]

Shoals of herring was written by Ewan McCowell in the 1960’s.

[@sandramorey2529]

This is a very nice documentary done by a very young filmmaker. In the first section I wish he had been able to use more than such a teensy bit of the shanties. Hard for the person who wants to research farther to get enough to be able to. The work sections are amazing. I suspect the Wellermen will bring a lot of folks to this doc. Great.

[@ilikemusic2726]

I fucking love shanties

[@chrisr.3320]

Thanks for sharing, great video.

[@crumdad]

Listen to Burl Ives “Down to the Sea in Ships”....marvelous

[@bertietheboy]

This documentary is about to pop off!!

[@adamwithey8194]

One of my favourite songs from Celtic Woman is a sea shanty and a sister act moment. Spanish Lady! Have you heard of that? Here are the lyrics. As I came down through Dublin City At the hour of twelve at night Who should I see but the Spanish lady Washing her feet by candlelight First she washed them, then she dried them Over a fire of amber coal In all my life I ne'er did see A maid so sweet about the sole Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay As I came back through Dublin City At the hour of half past eight Who should I spy but the Spanish lady Brushing her hair in the broad daylight First she tossed it, then she brushed it On her lap was a silver comb In all my life I ne'er did see A maid so fair since I did roam Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay As I went back through Dublin City As the sun began to set Who should I spy but the Spanish lady Catching a moth in a golden net When she saw me, then she fled me Lifting her petticoat over her knee In all my life I ne'er did see A maid so shy as the Spanish lady Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay It looks good! View this website:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6qyq4OKYtGphcU

[@adamwithey4746]

00:00 I love the BBC FOUR ident.

[@Angus005]

I live in Canada, I've listened to sea shanties since 2001. People are just finding it now?

[@brandonedwards1181]

Seems like it me ol mainlander, I'm from Newfoundland and grew up with em, it warms the heart seeing other people enjoying them

[@Angus005]

@@brandonedwards1181 I'm from nova scotia, yeah same. all the songs I grew up with are now popular around the world

[@ethanpurdy2635]

Nah, just the mainstream... there’s many of us in the UK who have listened to them since we were chiddlers. It’s the stuff that makes you who you are.

[@sarahhall738]

I love folk music and shanties and I am learning to play a melodeon so this was just my thing

[@em-jd4do]

once the pandemic is "over" i hope these old men will still be alive and young people can join.

[@gregkral4467]

Thank you, am from alberta myself and love the newfie and wel, all chanties... so much history and wonderful sounds and music and you don't need an instrument, just yer voice, which you always have with ya. And hopefully you got some buddies to sing with we used to sing our faves together in harmony world over music to our ears and pleasure when we got together, great big sea was our faves, and of course barretts privateers. Thanks for this vid.

[@CostcoComrade]

Of course you can't mention being from anywhere in canada and not mention Barretts privateers in the same comment

[@gregkral4467]

@@CostcoComrade hehehehe, worked with lotsa Newfies, but dang, really got into the chanties..... great work tunes, and suit my voice.... you betcha. but seems like an old sailor's grave on the prairies here in berta. nothin but piss yellow grass here.

[@facedman8699]

This guy really likes sea men.

[@ketchuplad157]

Fucking lol

[@talentedpigeon3296]

Boooo

[@CostcoComrade]

We were all thinking it

[@sandramorey2529]

Any reason the composer of Shoals of Herring wasn't credited? That would be Ewan MacCall in his series called "Singing The Fishing" documenting ways of earning a living that are no longer practiced widely. He made 6 series. The only other one I recall is "The Traveling People". Available on CD.

[@adamwithey4746]

01:45 As seen on the Last Night of the Proms, Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia of British Sea Songs in which they are performing at Royal Albert Hall in London as a tribute to the Battle of Trafalgar, this song that the Celtic Woman member Mairead Nesbitt reminded us in the whole community of music taken from a new journey at Slane Castle, Ireland. She played a medley called Shenandoah - The Pacific Slope/Reels. It's a salty tradition in the world of Sea Shanty tunes. view this website:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXvSf5drbt5sbpY

[@adamwithey4746]

One of my favourite songs from Celtic Woman is a sea shanty and a sister act moment. Spanish Lady! Have you heard of that? Here are the lyrics. As I came down through Dublin City At the hour of twelve at night Who should I see but the Spanish lady Washing her feet by candlelight First she washed them, then she dried them Over a fire of amber coal In all my life I ne'er did see A maid so sweet about the sole Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay As I came back through Dublin City At the hour of half past eight Who should I spy but the Spanish lady Brushing her hair in the broad daylight First she tossed it, then she brushed it On her lap was a silver comb In all my life I ne'er did see A maid so fair since I did roam Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay As I went back through Dublin City As the sun began to set Who should I spy but the Spanish lady Catching a moth in a golden net When she saw me, then she fled me Lifting her petticoat over her knee In all my life I ne'er did see A maid so shy as the Spanish lady Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay Whack for the toora loora laddy Whack for the toora loora lay It looks good! View this website:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6qyq4OKYtGphcU

[@amustardseed6748]

Kimber’s Men(Band) 43:30 Robert Whitworth 47:00 Robert Whitworth 49:35 Rattling Winches 51:11 Johnny comes down the hilo

[@mikewalrus4763]

From my point of view most of these are "forebiters" - sung in the foc'sl to pass the time away, not real worksongs!