Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - South Australia

[BizzyKiel]

Ohmygod i love it!

[Lazairus]

what is the chord pattern for this song, i ve seen a man do it in D em am c G chords not in that order.

[xNoTriggerx]

best version ive heard on youtube haha

[sandinmyears1]

I was thinking of this song today and couldn't remember who I knew it by. Did it at all surprise me when the CB&TM was one of the results?? Silly me. To be honest though, I think I remember it best because when I was growing up my dad used to play it (and sing to it) on his guitar.

[BenDuvallIrwin]

HEAVE AWAY HAUL AWAY

[ernstbecker1]

I never been to Australia; however, this song makes want to visit !

[theyusedtocallmebobo]

South Australia round cape horn, fucking love it

[3tangle3]

wikipedia says the shanty is from North east england

[nostromoau]

@HegemonOfEarth If you bothered reading the lyrics of the song you would see that it is apparently written from the POV of an Australian...thats all I

'm saying..as to who was singing the song...who cares.

[nostromoau]

@nostromoau That shouldn't have sounded so abrupt. I dont mean who cares who is singing the song as such...what I mean is anyone could have sung this song back in the days of sail, that wouldn't alter the fact that its written from the POV of an Australian.. Not that it matters very much, I'm just pointing that out to the guys who are arguing whether its an Irish or an English song. A welsh choir could sing Kalinka but that wouldn't make it a welsh song would it?

[ernstbecker1]

@nostromoau Right ! If I was born in a barn would it make me a horse?

[nostromoau]

@ernstbecker1 No mate, but if you were born in South Australia it would make you an Australian.....duh.

[ernstbecker1]

@nostromoau Ya miised the humor ciber, duh.

[ernstbecker1]

@nostromoau Ya missed the humor ciber -- duh.

[FraggingBard]

@nostromoau

Not necessarily...

:P

[nostromoau]

I dont know what all this 'English song' business is about...'born in South Australia' makes it an Aussie song, doesn't it? I know it's IN English and everything....

[peppersponies]

@nostromoau

I think its "BOUND for South Australia"

[nostromoau]

@peppersponies Look at the lyrics in the drop-down menu....ïn South Australia I was BORN.....'...okay?

[marchingeagle987]

@nostromoau if you listen to those song lyrics, it is a sea shanty. the speaker (usually a shantyman) is indicated to have been born in South Australia, (usually, not actually) used to keep the tempo of work steady on board ship, apparently the ship's destination was south australia, most likely the ship was an English ship since Australia was an English provence, thus the song is an English shanty

[3tangle3]

@nostromoau ITS bound for south australia ahha

[ernstbecker1]

@3tangle3 I'll drink to that !

[scotnick59]

Raised on this as a lad = A+ don't get me wrong. My Scots mama would take all the furniture out to the sunny patio for spring cleaning and she'd play the Clancy Bros. until one felt they were in Eire!

[bbbartolo]

Hey, great stereo sound! thanks

[shellback1978]

excellent

[whoisthelovebrigade]

i love the pogues version, but this is my favorite

[LindsayCurran]

Rolllicking good post! Love the ending:

"And as we wallop around Cape Horn,

You'll wish to God you'd never been born!"

[sandinmyears]

My father has this album and this one of my favorite songs from it.

[alanbstard4]

the Irish hijacking an English tune

[MACLEA1987]

@alanbstard4 many an Irishman served the crown and many more were forced into service or sent to prison colonies Australia being one of them.

[alanbstard4]

@MACLEA1987 yes, so what? What is the relevence of that statement

[MACLEA1987]

@alanbstard4 What is the relevence of my statement? Music is something that is exchanged and shared. Do you honestly believe that in the long and tangled history between Ireland and Britain that an Irish man never once sang a British song or that a British man never sang an Irish song?

[alanbstard4]

@MACLEA1987 Not at all. I refer back to relavence. It's an English song, specifically, not British generally

[MACLEA1987]

@alanbstard4 They are singers that enjoyed singing traditional and folk songs. Just because they are Irish does not mean they can not sing an English song. Besides music is music you either perform well or you do not. Focusing on the fact that the performer or performers is of a differing nationality, creed, race, or sex than the original performers is a negative way of thinking.

[WereWolve]

Whiskey in the Jar- Essenstial Drinking songs has a copy

[Dan77able]

Hi, It's Dan here. I'm not sure if your in Canada or not? but if your still looking for this CD? Try:

HMV Toronto Superstore

333 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON M5B 1A1

(416) 596-0333‎

[Joshua12345]

It is on 'Songs of the Sea', not sure if it ever the album as was, was ever released on CD, it may not have been. But a good trawl of the net ( pardon the pun ) should drag up the vinyl.

[joshrykut]

its heave away you rolling kings not haul away you r.k. i learned this is 5th grade

[Joshua12345]

Shanties as with all folk songs, evolve, indeed Maggie May started out as Brenda May Cadwallader of Hoiylake Springs, totally different words and an entirely different melody and tempo, but there you are.

[RoyFive]

You and your friend were mistaken.

[jagborisundsvall]

i know, but we're swedes, and we just heard it får the first time, and thougt the said that...

bu the when i hered it again i heard thay sang "around cape horn"

take it easy!!!

[RoyFive]

Oh, yeah. I get it. That's cool.

On my message board sometimes we discuss "mistaken and misheard lyrics"--probably the best known is "'scuse me while I kiss THIS GUY", by Hendrix, which of course is really "scuse me while I kiss THE SKY.

[jagborisundsvall]

haha ok!

i'm doing missheard lyrics in swedish =)

[riko2chialchemist]

There's also another version of this song. Really fun to sing while you're rowing a long boat.

[BigBadB71113]

Check out your/our history, Mother England was trying to extinguish all Irish,mother England used the Scots,and Welsh for hert dirty work.......800yrs of it that's what the sopngs are about

[jbromf]

the song actually referred to the Cornish miners that went to the copper triangle on Yorkes Peninsular (three towns of Moonta, Kadina, Wallaroo). They have a festival there every other year called the Kernewek Lowender to celebrate their Cornish heritage.

[seangenegenie]

really i didnt know that i assumed that because so many irish bands have coverd it it was about irish emigration in the 1800s. intresting

[Reds4PM]

In South Australia I was born

Love it

[Bartoniusz28]

This song make me want to sit in boat and sail somewhere :) This reminds me i didn't go fishing for some time. There is spring and some fishing rod and some creatures with scales in water :)

[dong2phat4u]

Absolutely love it. This is one of the most covered sea shantys in my hometown of St.John's Newfoundland.

[JoTheSnoop]

I remember singing this in, with family in the car travelling from Sydney to Adelaide for a one week holiday back in 1988 (went to the Grand Prix that year).

[ErnstBecker]

GOD ALMIGHTY what music !

[gschjetne]

Why does the song say "round Cape Horn" when the clipper route to Australia goes east around Good Hope?

[ErnstBecker]

Probably no whaler could navigate by an other course.

[hkeddieme]

The clipper route went from Britain to Australia via Good Cape but returned to Britain round Cape Horn, thus using the prevailing winds on both legs of the journey. The song is describing the route of the whole voyage bound for South Australia, (then) round the Horn and back to Britain.

[gschjetne]

Of course, it makes sense to me now! Thanks.

"There ain't but one thing grieves my mind,

It's to leave Miss Nancy Blair behind."

Somehow I didn't catch that they were returning from Australia.

[ErnstBecker]

At that time it was the only nautical route. Remember therre was no Panama Cana, that is, if they were in those waters.

[Bartoniusz28]

It's lovely i'm gonna be bound for south Australia some day :)

[joeygsmom]

is "south australia" Tasmania or the southern part of australia?

[will409]

South Australia is a state, not a region or another name for Tasmania.

[joeygsmom]

oh thanx

:)

[straco13]

who wouldnt wat to be bound for south australia

[ilikezappa]

It used to be a punishment. now it costs you 800 quid!

[Bartoniusz28]

A warm sound of the vinyl record :)

[honyden]

my dad had this record

[Bartoniusz28]

i didn't hear this before but i love it! Their gaelic accent is very pleasant to my ears :)

[HaulAwayJoe]

one of my favorites!!!

[vlikavec]

yes sir, nice song it is :D

[bondie45]

Another classic.