#Sea shanties

[secretmellowblog]

🚨 SCAM JOB ALERT🚨

Watch out for any job listings that claim you’ll cruise the seas for American gold, fire no guns, and shed no tears. These are all scams and the job is NOT as advertised. Source: I fell for it and am now a broken man on a Halifax pier

[notfromcold]

Classic sea shanties like:

"I fucking hate this ship and I cannot wait to get off."

"I got off the ship on the dock but I know I'm going to get back on the ship when my leave is up. Fuck."

"Storm."

"Big storm."

"Is it just me or does this ship have like. Really clean lines. Like damn. Okay. Not saying I'm feeling attracted to the ship, per se, but. Damn."

"Sometimes you see weird shit that you cannot explain and you just kinda have to shrug and go. Welp."

[rat-hand]

Sea shanty about a crew disappearing at sea but as it’s sung fewer and fewer people are singing until it’s just one person left.

[agirlwithachakram]

sea shanty themes

hearing an old man saying something

Captain’s an asshole

Captain’s awesome (same captain)

first mate sucks

whiskey

the girls out here

the girls back home

ship is terrible

ship is great

Cape Horn

seriously why are we always running around Cape Horn this place sucks ass

want to go home

did NOT want to go home, somehow ended up there anyway

Sally and various sex acts we can do with her

beach party

rolling, heaving, hauling

where we’re bound

sea beasties threatening us and/or assisting us

stormy weather but we’re together

setting out to sea

coming in to harbor/taking shore leave

too much whiskey

punishing naughty crewmen

Let Me Tell You About This Guy

Goodbye!

Hello!

let us bother this fellow

oh man I should marry that one girl if I ever get back home

befriended an animal, call my parents if you don’t believe me!

you ever been to Place?

I have been grievously misled

sailors gotta sail

let’s get this bread, boys

don’t forget your old shipmate

faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe

[boatmediatourney]

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[ltwilliammowett]

Sea Shanties and Shipboard Music aboard Warships

Traditionally, sea shanties were sung on board both warships and merchant ships to help light the work involved in sailing the ship. They are usually divided into two main groups - capstan shanties, designed to accompany the hard effort involved in heaving on the bars of the ship's capstan, and halyard shanties, where either the rhythm or the words were designed to help the men pull together, for instance when raising a sail pr raising up a new spar to the masthead.

Most shanties follow the same pattern, with short versesand boisterous but repetitive choruses. Sometimes the lyrics were either made up aas the seamen went along, or else improvised or repeated, especially if the task proved longer than the shanty. The words were often less important than the rhythm of the song, although some shanties such Shenandoah or Blow the Man Down have become famous as songs in their own right. Oh and by the way the first known shanties date from the mid-16th century, recorded in the Complaynt of Scotland (1549), but their origins probably lie much further back than that.

It has been argued that sea shanties were much more commonplace on merchant vessels than on warships, as the later were comparatively well manned, so the labour involved in sailing the ship was less arduous. This theory isn't borne out by what we know about life in the sailing navies of the world. While shanties might have been less commonly used as working songs, they were widdely sung as a means of recreation. Music was important on board a sailing man o'war, and instruments such as fiddles, fifes and flutes were often played when sailors were off-duty. And the sailors loved singing on board until ordered to their hammocks at pipe down, these shanties are known as fo'c's'le songs or forebitters. Dancing was also popular, and many captains encouraged it, as a way of keeping spirits high and of providing exercise.

Popular songs in the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars were Nancy Dawson, Spanish Ladies and Drops of Brandy and some ships carried an official band, and during the approach of the British Fleet to the enemy at the Battle of Trafalgar, many ships played Rule Britannia, Hearts of Oak or Britons Strike Home.

Shanties during work on board depended on the captain, because not everyone wanted music. It was more like silence aboard a warship so that the men could hear the orders better and not get lost in the singing. But it also happened that there was singing or a flute was played when the anchor was being aweight but that mostly depending on the situation on the ship.

Well the truth was, music such as sea shanties made the work appear easier, whether on board a merchant vessel or a warship. But the shanties went out of favour with the coming of steam. With no sails to raise, and with steam powered capstans there was little need to sing during work. By the later 19th century they had lost their original workmanlike purpose, and shanties became something that were sung for fun and get mixed with the so called sailors songs, rather than as a song of work.

[burningvelvet]

ATTENTION pirates, pirate lovers, & #piratecore perusers: PLEASE listen to ship in a bottle by fin aka steffan argus - & his whole album lost at sea. i really like the song abandon ship too. thank me later

[ratuszarsenal]

god damn them all <- it's been six years since they sailed away and he just made halifax yesterday

[bethanydelleman]

When I say that my husband listens to old music what I mean is that my kindergartener was singing sea shanties in the back seat as I drove him to school.

[future-crab]

People who insist on changing the pronouns in songs while they’re singing along are so weak. “But I’m not gay!” Okay?? And I’m not a broken man on a Halifax pier, the last of Barrett’s Privateers, but for the length of this song I can be.

[necessaryvictoriangargoyle]

Unfortunatly, I have lost the post in question. However, someone (probably multiple actually) demanded that since Grian has a fish obsession in season 10 and has been non-stop fishing for 3 episodes straight all fan songs about him should be sea shanties. I just want to let the Hermitblr world know that I have started writing one as we speak.

[leftsidebonfire]

THE LONGEST JOHNS FINALLY DID A COVER OF BINKS BREW OH MY GOD I FUCKING LOVE SEA SHANTIES DROP EVERYTHING AND LISTEN

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

A few thoughts on why I love sea shanties (especially when I'm feeling down & stressed)

They were songs created in hard times and under hard conditions.

They acknowledge the danger and difficulty.

They were meant to ease that difficulty (even though they couldn't eliminate it altogether)

They work best when shout-sung.

And when sung in a group.

There's nothing "fancy" about them

But you still get beautiful harmony when many people are singing in their most comfortable voice range. Because it just so happens that every voice is different, when you get enough of them together, you end up with a perfectly beautiful harmonic sound, because that's just how people are.

And that last one, I think, is a beautiful metaphor.

[appletreeduty]

a Valyrian sea shanty

so @dragonsoftheeast wrote a song, in Valyrian and in English:

and we have workshopped the melody in English:

Listen here to me singing the verse in English

@dedalvs​ can you please check the Valyrian lyrics? We aren’t sure if they are correct, or if there is a better way to phrase them for our song. 

Please reblog if you are interested!

[notcaptainjack]