I'm serious. And if you know where I can find some mp3 recordings, that'd be awesome. I mean like the "yo ho ho" pirate-y stuff.

Row, Row, Row Your Boat
28 Miles Across The Sea (Catalina Island)

i remember i brief brush with boat-core...does that count?

it was hardcore guys yelling "PORT!!!! AFT!!! PORT!!!!! STARBOARD!!!!!!! etc

The band Tsunami Bomb are often labelled as "pirate-punk".

Probably not exactly what you're feeling, but:

Amalgamated Sons of Rest "S/T"
Mike Watt "Contemplating the Engine Room"

if you look at the end of the classical music section of a record store they usually a section of just "old stuff" like renaissance music and stuff. sometimes there will be sea shanties over in there.

I remember finding a website with nothing but sea shanty lyrics but that was 5 years ago.... Any luck with Google?

Try Ween's "The Mollusk" Not sure if "The Blarney Stone" is exactly what you are looking for, but it's gotta be close.

epay probably has some. I bught a sea shanty disk there a few years ago, but I don't have it with me. It's still in FL.

The entire back catalog of The Decemberists.

Hmmm, have you heard Blueberry Boat?

I did a quirky little comp a few years ago that I called Pirates and Mermaids because I stated it out with some (duh) pirate and mermaid tunes....

1. Die Knödel - Knödelpolka from Overcooked Tyroleans
2. S.F. Seals - Kid's Pirate Ship from Truth Walks In Sleepy Shadows
3. Stephen Malkmus - The Hook from Stephen Malkmus
4. Ween - The Mollusk from The Mollusk
5. Pram - The Mermaids' Hotel from The Museum Of Imaginary Animals

http://members.mailaka.net/davey/comps. ... d_Mermaids

Kind of fun but wasn't quite the success I had in mind when I started to put it together. Got a bit bleak toward the end too.

I mentioned the latest CD that I bought from Wayne Robbins & the Hellsayers a few days ago in another thread, and it has some of that old time sea shanty sound mixed in, maybe as viewed through a Crazy Horse lens. Very, very cool CD.

http://obner.org/bb/viewtopic.php?p=55722#55722

Mekons-Shanty

Spongebob Squarepants theme song.

Tom Waits? Arrrrrgh?

The Coral - Skeleton Key

The Irish Descendants - Barrett's Privateers.

I doubt you'll find it anywhere so I just uploaded the mp3.

Try this -- http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html

International Shanty and Seasong database can be found here: http://www.shanty.org/website/Engels/index.html

2 specific Decemberists songs: "A Cautionary Song" (from "Castaways and Cutouts") and "The Mariner’s Revenge Song" (from the new one, "Picaresque").

If you enjoy sea shanties, I recommend reading PIRATES! In an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe.

Styx- Come Sail Away!?

Drunken Sailor - traditional (midi)
Blow The Man Down - traditional (midi)
Ratcliffe Highway - slightly bawdy!
The Calabar - fun
Haul Away, Joe - traditional chantie (midi)
South Australia - traditional chantie (midi)
Can't Ye Dance The Polka - traditional forebitter
Liverpool Judies - capstan chantie traditional
Liverpool Judies ver.2 - ditto
Dundee Whalers - traditional forebitter
Paddy West - traditional (midi)
Shiver Me Timbers - muppets
Spanish Ladies - traditional (midi)
100 Years Ago - traditional
Mermaid Song - traditional
The Irish Rover - Irish (midi)
Walloping WIndow Blind - Charles E. Carryl
Ballad of John Silver (poem) - John Masefield
Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills, & Nash
Sloop John B - traditional (midi)
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot (midi)
Barrett's Privateers - Stan Rogers
Jamaican Farewell - Lord Burgess (midi)
The Maid on the Shore - Stan Rogers
White Squall - Stan Rogers
The Land of Libertie - traditional
Saint Brendan's Voyage - Jimmy Driftwood
The Fishermen's Song - traditional
Son of a son of a Sailor - Jimmy Buffett (midi)
Boat Drinks - Jimmy Buffett (midi)
Sailing - Christopher Cross (midi)
The I'm Alone - Wade Hemsworth
British Man O'War - traditional
When I was a fair maid - For the ladies
Ballad of Eye Patch and Meg - Michelle Shocked
Farewell to Carlingford - traditional
Farewell to Nova Scotia - Canadian Traditional (midi)
Sailor's Revel - Minstrels of Mayhem
Oh for me Grog - traditional
16 men on a deadmans chest - 1901 musical
Common Sailors - traditional
We'll rant and we'll roar - Newfoundland (midi)
Come Sail Away - Styx (midi)
Brandy - Looking Glass (midi)
Gilligaaaan! - I like it! (midi)
Sea Cruise - '50's! (midi)
Jack was every inch a sailor - Newfoundland (midi)
I'se the bye - Newfoundland
Sail On Sailor - Beach Boys! (midi)
A- Rovin - Traditional (midi)
Popeye - the sailor (midi)
Cool Change - Little River Band
Ride, Captain, Ride - Blues Image
Ship Of Fools - Grateful Dead
Louie, Louie - The Kingsmen
Sailing - Rod Stewart


fp <--- friends of Google

in the navy - the village people. a yarr of a sea shanty if i ever heard one.

Sea Shanty
Navigator
Greenland Whale Fisheries
Thousands are Sailing
If I Should Fall From Grace with God

All by The Pogues

Yeah I was just gonna write Rum Sodomy and the Lash, but there's not much sea faring on it other than the artwork


I wrote one once:

out on the wave
into the storm
hunting on the sea

weathering strong
a warrior's realm
sailor's drink whiskey

when the stars come out to play
they move about the night
to map our course like sparks to flames
for ships on the sea they guide

heave ho
into the blow
buckle down the stays

keeping her course
the bow up ahead
into the wind and waves

we hold our own around the horn
we reef the jib and main
a month may pass 'til early morn
for sailor's it's a day

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Cabin Fever

arrrghh........if nazis were pirates i'd imagine they'd make songs like this