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Songs the whalemen sang: illustrated with photos of drawings from whalemen's journals and of scrimshaw furnished through the courtesy of the Whaling Museum of New Bedford, Mass
Publisher
Barre Publishers
Publication Date
1964
Language
English
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From the Musical Score
The coast of Peru
A prayer at the start of a voyage
A fitting out
The whalefish song
The Greenland whale
The cruise of the Dove
The whaleman's lament
The whalers' song
A whaling scene
Our old friend Coffin
The wounded whale
Rolling down to Old Mohee
Diego's bold shore
The old hulk
The bark Gay Head
The bark Ocean Rover
Desolation
The wings of a goney
Blow ye winds
The ship Euphrasia
A wet sheet and a flowing sea
Sing the flowing bowl
Loose every sail to the breeze
Captain James
The topsail shivers in the wind
The sequel to Will Watch
The sea
Saturday night at sea
I was once a sailor
Hearts of gold
The tempest
The can of grog
The pirate of the isles
The demon of the sea
The rover of the sea
Most beautiful
The sea ran high
The Ocean Queen
The storm was loud
Neptune
The dauntless sailor
The sovereign of the sea
A life on the ocean wave
Covent Garden
Cupid's garden
William Taylor
The tarry trousers
The captain calls all hands
A young virgin
The nobleman's daughter
John Riley
The British man-of-war
Pretty Sally
The banks of Glenco
The beggarman
Bright Phoebe
The dark-eyed sailor
The mantle so green
Our ship she is lying in harbour
The silvery tide
The undutiful daughter
The ship carpenter
The pride of Kildare
The lily of the west
The maid on the shore
Lovely Caroline
The Turkish lady
The times
The sons of liberty
The lass of Mowee
The heathen dear
The moon is brightly beaming love
Shearing day
Sarah Mariah Cornell
John Brown
The banks of the Schuylkill
The banks of Champlain
A new liberty song
A song of the Nantucket ladies
Springfield Mountain
Blessed land of love and liberty
Sons of worth
John Bull's epistle
The California song
The captain
The confession
Virtuous America
The Indian hunter
Willie Gray
The shepherd's daughter
A new song
The croppy boy
Queen of the May
The Sheffield 'prentice boy
Song on courtship
When first into this country
O Logie O Buchan
Aran's lonely home
Fair Betsy
I had a handsome fortune
Bonaparte on St. Helena
The bonny bunch of roses-O
Bonaparte
The green linnet
One night sad and languid
The farmer's boy
The County of Tyrone
In days when we went gipsying
Rinordine
Behind the green bush
Reily's jailed
The first time I saw my love
The shepherd's lament
Women love kissing as well as the men
Fanny Blair
Silvery moon
Willie's on the dark blue sea
The banks of Banna
The maid of Erin
Adieu my native land
Angels whisper
The bride's farewell
The dying soldier
Genette and Genoe
Mary's dream
The ocean
Thou hast learned to love another
We met 'twas in a crowd
Jamie's on the stormy sea
Adieu to Erin
Blow high blow low
The rose of Allendale
The beacon light
A new sea song
Down Wapping
The Bible story
Farewell my dear Nancy
The Turkey factor in foreign parts
The sailor boy's song
A sailor's trade is a roving life
Hunter's Lane
Fare you well
Moll Brooks
Nelson
The bonnet of blue
When I remember
Come let us be jolly
Ye parliaments of England
Old horse
An ancient riddle
Wait for the wagon
Prayer
The pilot
The Lord our God
Row on
The recruiting sargeant
The post below
A love song in the year 1769
Elegy on the death of a mad dog
A charming fellow
The wreath
I can not call her mother
The village born beauty
As I grow old
Norah darling
The sailor's farewell
Terrible Polly
The wide world of waters
Song of Solomon's Temple
Poll and Sal
The keyhole in the door
The sandshark
Billy O'Rourke
Now we steer our course for home.
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