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The sea song sampler.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Sea Heritage Foundation, Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
Format: CD Audio
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, [2003]
Series:Custom compact disc series.
[Songs from the age of sail].
Sea Heritage library of sailing songs ; 7.
Subjects:
Sea songs.
Folk songs, English.
Folk music.
Table of Contents:
  • Disc 1. Where am I to go (3:16)
  • Fire down below (1:51)
  • Ye mariners all (2:24)
  • Mingulay boat song (2:19)
  • Rio (3:32)
  • Haul on the bowline (1:20)
  • Boney was a warrior (1:17)
  • Moby Dick reading (3:36)
  • Bulley in the alley (1:37)
  • The Oda G (2:29)
  • Happy and delightful (4:29)
  • The Grey Funnel Line (3:33)
  • The ghostly sailors (4:12)
  • Whoop Jamboree (3:31)
  • The Erie Canal (3:32).
  • Disc 2. The wild goose (1:12)
  • Roll the cotton down (1:20)
  • Strike the bell (3:06)
  • When the Colorado rises (2:00)
  • The harp without the crown (3:16)
  • A long time ago (1:36)
  • Fathom the bowl (4:00)
  • Big Bill Snider [i.e. Snyder] (3:17)
  • Sounds of fish (4:07)
  • Married a mermaid (1:43)
  • Dredging and drudgery (2:32)
  • Sally Brown (1:50)
  • Goodbye fare thee well ; Leave her Johnny [i.e. The Clackmannanshire mutiny, with Leave her Johnnie] (6:35)
  • Bonavist Harbour (1:33)
  • Pleasant and delightful (4:41).