Stuart M. Frank - Sea Chanties & Forecastle Songs at Mystic Seaport (CD)

Details: This album features classic sea shanties from the 19th century, "sung in the traditional manner, accompanied on historic 19th-century instruments, and recorded aboard historic sailing ships" at the Mystic Seaport Maritime Museum. Shanties were sung to make the heavy labor aboard merchant sailing vessels more coordinated, efficient, and lighter. "To hear a good yarn, and sing out a lively, rowdy chorus, was far more pleasurable" than listening to the Bosun yelling orders. Liner notes include background on chanties, song lyrics, and black-and-white photographs of sailors.

Tracklist:

1. Hanging Johnny
2. John Kanaka
3. Rueben Ranzo
4. The Wild Goose
5. Roll the Cotton Down
6. Blood Red Roses
7. A Hundred Years Ago
8. Tommy's Gone to Hilo
9. Haul Away for Rosie-O
10. Billy Riley / Sally Racket (Medley)
11. Goodbye Fare Ye Well
12. Shenandoah
13. Santa Anna
14. Can Ye Dance the Polka
15. Sally Brown
16. One More Day
17. Paddy on the Railway
18. The Weary Whaling Grounds
19. The Balaena
20. The Handsome Cabin Boy
21. Liverpool Judies
22. Paddy and the Whale
23. Traditional Reel
24. Mystic River Hornpipe
25. Traditional Jig
26. The Bold Harpooner
27. The Coast of Peru
28. Blow Ye Winds Westerly
29. Maid of Amsterdam
30. Greenland Whale Fisheries
31. Ten Penny Bit
32. Belfast Hornpipe
33. The Forester
34. The Bold Benjamin