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Focsle Singers - Foc'sle Songs and Shanties [CD]

Focsle Singers - Foc'sle Songs and Shanties [CD]

Release Date: /// Folkways Records

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Shanties and foc'sle (forecastle) songs lightened the burden of work aboard ship and provided entertainment to off-duty sailors. This recording features Massachusetts singer Paul Clayton and the Foc'Sle Singers: Dave Van Ronk, Bob Brill, Roger Abrahams, and Bob Yellin. Most of their repertoire comes from BBC field recordings of English shantymen.

Tracklist:

  1. Ratcliffe Highway
  2. Rio Grande
  3. Haul On The Bowline
  4. Maggie May
  5. Haul Away Joe
  6. Do My Johnny Booker
  7. Roll The Cotton Down
  8. Haul Boys Haul
  9. Leave Her Johnny
  10. Paddy Lay Back
  11. Fire Down Below
  12. A Hundred Years Ago
  13. Santy Anno
  14. Captain Nipper
  15. Hanging Johnny
  16. Banks Of The Sacramento
  17. Won't You Go My Way
  18. Good Bye Fare Thee Well
  19. All Bound To Go
  20. The Black Ball Line

UPC: 093070242920
Label: FOLKWAYS RECORDS
Release Date: 5.30.12
Format: CD

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