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Battle of Boiling Water [Song from Redwall]
StatenIslandFolkie
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I was deeply saddened when Redwall author Brian Jacques passed away unexpectedly this January. I hadn't picked up one of his books in years, but Martin the Warrior, Basil S...
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Nancy Rhee [Sea Chantey from Jamaica]
StatenIslandFolkie
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One of several chanteys remembered by James Taft Hatfield from his 1886 voyage on the full-rigged bark Ahkera, manned by a crew of "eight strapping Jamaican Negroes."
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Yankee Boys, So Handy, O! [Civil War Broadside]
StatenIslandFolkie
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A Civil War broadside mimicking the style of "The Constitution and the the Guerriere," a ballad from the War of 1812. (A nice version of this song is
Francis Wilkinson P...
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Dark Holler Blues (I Was Born In East Virginia) [Mournful Love Song from the American South]
StatenIslandFolkie
163 views
By TheHeadlessFolkieOfStatenIslandHollow. (The original video wasn't cropped, and I'm not sure why it decided to cut out my head . . . .)
I thought I'd record something ...
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Shenandoah, My Bully Boy [Sea Chantey from Guyana]
StatenIslandFolkie
241 views
From Frank Bullen and W.F. Arnold's "Songs of Sea Labor." Bullen recalls hearing this capstan/windlass shanty on the Demerara River of Georgetown, Guyana from a crew of "am...
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Bold Nevison [English Highwayman Broadside]
StatenIslandFolkie
113 views
My favorite of the highwayman good-night ballads, about John (William) Nevison, who was hanged in 1684 or 1685. Percy Grainger recorded Joseph Taylor singing this to a rath...
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Hilo Johnny Brown Stand To Your Ground
StatenIslandFolkie
57 views
Improvised October chantey; an experimentation in authentic method with less regard to authentic style. I'm pleasantly surprised with how well I was able to extemporize ver...
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Blow, Boys, Blow (Was You Ever On The Congo River?)
StatenIslandFolkie
4,879 views
Basil Lubbock gives these lyrics in his 1910 novel "Deep Sea Warriors."
There are one or two instances of rather repulsive language in Lubbock's text, which I hesitantl...
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Jolly Poker (Johnny Bowker) [Canadian Hauling Song]
StatenIslandFolkie
380 views
A hauling song that consists only of a repeated chorus. Greenleaf and Marrow, noting its obvious similarity to the "Johny Boker" collected by Joanna Colcord and others, wri...
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The Burning of Auchindoon / Fiddich Side (Child 183)
StatenIslandFolkie
278 views
With a little help from some furry friends and a timely window slam.
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