Short Sharp Shanties Vol. 1 by John Short

Summary

This is the first of three CDs which record the repertoire of John Short – a.k.a. Yankee Jack – of Watchet, Somerset in England’s West Country, who, in 1914, gave the folk-song collector Cecil Sharp nearly sixty shanties, several in early rare versions. John spent over fifty years working in sailing boats, much of his younger days in deep-water ships, sailing all around the world as a shantyman. He was born in 1839; went to sea with his father when he was nine; went deep sea at eighteen; married and retired from the deep water trade in his mid-thirties and died when he was ninety-two, in 1933.

Sung by: Jim Mageean, Jeff Warner, Keith Kendrick, Jackie Oates, Roger Watson, Sam Lee, Brian Willoughby, Tom Brown, Barbara Brown, Doug Bailey.

Track Listing

1 Sing Fare You Well

3 Mr. Tapscott

4 A Hundred Years on the Eastern Shore

10 The Bully Boat (Ranzo Ray)

11 Stormalong John (Stormy Along, John)

18 Tommy’s Gone (Tommy’s Gone Away)

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