Guitar: Spanish Ladies

[evelyn3ish]

Your videos are great! I am trying to learn some sea shanties for an extra skill to work on the tall ships this summer and these are very quality and enjoyable versions! Thanks!

[MrKrinkelz]

SSAANTTAAAA!!

your a sailor?

[threelegsoman]

@MrKrinkelz I have to earn a living somehow. It's a long time between one Christmas Eve and the next!!! :-))

[TheVerinen2]

Do you want to be my grandad?

[Kypduron1]

Fantastic, love your version.

[threelegsoman]

@Kypduron1 Thank you. Kind of you to say so.

[psvguitarlegend]

Very good :D, and I like your voice!

[nolicnotrut]

There is an interesting commentary of this song in Roy Palmer's 'The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'. He publishes the score in the key of G-minor, but acknowledges that sailors of the Royal Navy would use a major key - as do you.

Great song, I love it, and your worthy execution (not literally!) is an encouragement to everyone.

Where can I buy a third leg?

Good wishes,

Colin.

[jagdpanther1944]

drinks and is merry and drowns melancholy

wants all the spanish ladies:)

thank you!

[Dulshor]

Your voice reminds me of the times my english teacher forced us to sing all those pretty english folk songs like cockles and mussles and streets of london. Though I just moved my lips instead of sing along I really enjoyed it. And so did I listening to you. Thanks a lot for sharing your talent with us, Tony.

Sincerely regards from Germany

Toni

[threelegsoman]

@Dulshor Thank you Toni, I appreciate your kind comment very much.

[mattuoni]

this is troughly one of my fav videos

[yesnomaybe442]

this is the kind of voice that we need more of

[threelegsoman]

Thank you very much for your kind comment

[mirsad96]

this is a perfect example why youtube is great. well done

[threelegsoman]

Thank you so much for your kind comment

[STUTREE]

Great tune, lovely stuff.

[jagdpanther1944]

wow, thank you so much for doing this! great song, brilliantly done

[threelegsoman]

Thank you kindly, pleased you like it.

[threelegsoman]

Kind of you to say so.

[mike92280]

awsome i love it you have an amazeing voice

[thelightisahead]

Hmm, I just posted a comment, not sure if it's come through though... I'll wait and see! Anyway, I just came back to say I bet you could do a good take on 'The Lunatick Lover', also known as 'Grim King of the Ghosts'. It's got a great melody and lyrics, I've posted it on my channel if you'd like to watch. Anyway, take care!

[threelegsoman]

That's ok, sorry it took a while, but I have set the comments to require approval from all but friends, though there have only been a couple of offensive ones to date. This way they do not get put on site. Thanks for the suggestion and I will check it out. Cheers, Tony.

[thelightisahead]

Ah right, that's fine! I prefer to filter my comments too, it helps to keep the community clean. Hope you enjoy the video if you get round to it anyhow, take care!

[thelightisahead]

Hey this is lovely! And it's great to finally find a major key version of this melody on here, which is as I know it! Most of the other versions seem to be in a darker sounding mode or something. I think I'm going to busk this tune :) keep it up anyway!

[threelegsoman]

Thank you. I am glad you found it to your liking.

[nicedave29]

Another winner, thank you! I tend not to play this one live but have it as a standby. I hope there are other younger folk like me who discover these wonderful old songs and play them in folk clubs in the future, it's a rare gem to find anyone playing them at all now amidst the 1960s stuff! More power to your elbow...

[threelegsoman]

Thank you Dave. It is nice to be appreciated. I must however plead guilty to singing a fair number of 60s stuff myself as that is the era I started to play guitar. :))

[00JTM]

You did do a good job. I never heard of this song before but I like it.

[googlit5]

An excellent song which is difficult to find. Well played as well.

[threelegsoman]

Thank you for your kind comment. Pleased that you enjoyed it.

[sage11794]

nice i love the old shanties there hard to find if u dont know the names tho

[threelegsoman]

Thank you. I have a few on my channel if you look at my playlist: My own songs relating to the sea.

[windows31]

a lovely classic piece. appreciated thoroughly. thanks. wielkie dzięki

[threelegsoman]

Thank you, much appreciated.

[UKComedyDave]

Really enjoyed it Tony, great stuff.

I first discovered this song here on Youtube but it was the Robert Shaw Chorale version which I love immensely.

I'm just curious, there seem to be a few versions knocking about, but all have a common melody theme, is it safe to say that all of them (your own included) would be close to the original?

I love the thought of listening to something from that long ago captured today as close as possible .....

[threelegsoman]

I would think that in common with most shanties, the melody would be pretty close to the original, as these are songs which were sung by sailors to help keep time when heaving, pulling and pushing or anything where a number of men had to exert their strength together. The shantyman who set the rhythm would have learned the songs from experience on other ships, and would make up his own words whenever appropriate to lengthen the song perhaps... :)

[HunterOwnsAll]

This makes me want to watch "Jaws".

[delplero10]

I love this .. Thank you :)

[threelegsoman]

You are very welcome :)

[brokenbluebird]

Good job...Blessings to you.

[threelegsoman]

Thanks Karen, much appreciated.