Summary
This is the third and final CD which records 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 at the age of ninety-four, in 1933.
WGS388CD
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Track Listing
1
Rosabella - Sam Lee
2
Dead Horse (Poor Old Man) - Keith Kendrick
3
Heave Away, My Johnny (We’re All Bound To Go) - Barbara Brown
4
Bully In The Alley - Tom Brown
5
Liza Lee (Yankee John Stormalong) - Jim Mageean
6
Hog-eyed Man - Jackie Oates
7
Old Stormey (Mister Stormalong) - Barbara Brown
8
The Bull John Run (Eliza Lee) - Sam Lee
9
Billy Riley - Jeff Warner
10
Handy My Girls (So Handy) - Keith Kendrick
11
Blow Away The Morning Dew - Jim Mageean
12
Rando (Reuben Ranzo) - Barbara Brown
13
Paddy Works On The Railway - Keith Kendrick
14
He Back, She Back (Old Moke Picking on the Banjo) - Jeff Warner
15
Round the Corner Sally - Jim Mageean
16
Do Let Me Go (Yeller Gals)- Jackie Oates
17
Haul Away Joe - Sam Lee
18
Lowlands (Dollar and a half a day) - Jeff Warner
19
Homeward Bound (Goodbye, Fare You Well) - Roger Watson
20
Crossing The Bar (Tennyson/Arbo) - Jeff Warner
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