Bibframe Work

Historical introduction.

The age of sail and songs, 1818-1920s.

Outward and homeward bound.

Sailors, their work, grouses and demise.

Ports, harlots, shanghaiing and pressgangs.

Sailors' girls: faithful and faithless.

Whalers, fishermen, smugglers and pirates.

Danger and violence; ships (factual and otherwise)

Sailors' food and drink.

Superstition, customs and pidgin.

Spanish ladies

Rio grande

Shenandoah

We set out over the Atlantic

Sacramento

Paddy lay back

O ye merry seamen

Santiana

Leaving of Liverpool

Goodbye fare-ye-well

Outwrd and homeward bound

Goodbye Madras

leave her, Johnny, leave her

Strike the bell

did you know old Father Lancelot?

The three sailors of Groix

Return of the sailor

We must not grieve, we must not grouse

Song of the helmsman

Hauling song

Ben backstay

Where am I o go, me Johnnies?

Get the boat in the water

The sailor's grave

Bold MacCarteney

Curac̦ao

Liverpool

The runners of Hamburg

Hamburg, you lovely town

A-rovin'

Annie madam

Maggie May

What we'll do

Can't ye dance the polka?

Go to sea no more

Ratcliffe Highway

Jean Franc̦ois of Nantes

Blow the man down

Here's the tender comin'

Flash gals of the town

Singapor sang

Paddy west

Gangspilliedje

The handsome cabin boy

Once there was a crafty girl

Cawsand bay

Passing through Paris

Come to me on Saturday night

Stormy winter's night

Haul away, old fellow, away

The iron man

The cold, cold weather's blowin' in from sea

The pretty maid climbs up the highest mountain

Madeleine

Sally Brown

Rosabella Fredolin

Julia

My man he was a sailor

Back of our house

A sailor loves the ocean waves

Ballast song

When the lame one goes to market

A sailor toast

All who want to Iceland go

E Amòla

Fisherman's song

Rolling down to old Maui

The female smuggler

Dundee whalers

Reuben Ranzo

Bound for Valparaiso

Strike the whale

Eight bells

Fish of the sea

Störtebeker

The fourteenth of February

The thirty-first of August

The great racer

Barney Buntline

Lively there, all hands on deck

A little ship

The ship in distress

Rude boreas

The ship Benadotte

It happened in Gothenburg

Blow, boys, blow

The hamburg four-master

The dreadnaught

Bounty was a packet ship

La Pique

The Danaé

The daughters of La Rochelle

Clear the track

The Flying Cloud

The Old Brig

The Ebenezer

Albertina

Magellan

Sink it down, a tot each man

Sailor's drinking song

Drunken sailor

Billy boy

Last time I crossed the hill

Here's your rum!

The cook

The limejuice ship

The finest cook

Whiskey Johnny

The Hoffnung

The Flying Dutchman

Married to a mermaid

The dead horse

Samoa song

Kinakusten

My father was a Dutchman

Sampan girl.