Eliza Carthy: Rolling Sea

From: Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys, ANTI- 2006.

Buy CD: http://www.amazon.com/Rogues-Gallery-Pirate-Ballads-Chanteys/dp/B000GGSMD0/re...

Explanatory liner notes by record label ANTI-:

This song is from the perspective of a woman ashore, waiting for her sailor (or any sailor) to return home (with prize money). The lyrics are from the Napoleonic period. Some verses are the voice of a wife or sweetheart. The verse that compares sailors and soldiers is a well-known whore's ditty of the time.

Image: Diane Webber (July 27, 1932—August 19, 2008, Playboy Centerfold for Miss May 1955)
http://www.playboy.com/girls/playmates/directory/195505.html
Cover Mermaid. A Magazine for Adults! Collector's Edition, 1958.
http://www.thepaperframer.com/DianeWebberCovers.php

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Music

Tags:

• sirens
• mermaids
• sailors
• sexy
• mythology
• sea
• capstan
• shanty
• windlass
• halyard
• traditional
• pirates
• women
• brides

[98XxGGxX98]

thats my best frends auntie:)

[wolfgpunkt]

@98XxGGxX98 Whee -- congratulations :)

[mcc11505]

Thanks for posting this & allowing comments too. I enjoyed the background info on this great recording.

[Sheamusj]

Glorious!

[rayggallagher1974]

Good god this is good, ~Carthy's wahay



[firelied]

This. Is. Wonderful. I love her voice! I am looking into the rest of her stuff, I am impressed.

[fireflyqueen6]

I agree with others. Fabulous album that is rich with one glorious song after another. I highly recommend it's purchase!

[vermillion303]

This is the second Eliza Carthy song I ever heard, and it convinced me to start collecting her back catalogue. Saw her last night at the Salisbury Festival with Saul Rose, and they rocked.

[Ramubay]

Awesome, I bought a DVD of a movie called The Mermaids of Tiburon that someone recorded off of reel and they used the Mermaid cover on the back of the DVD box. I never knew it was actually one of the actresses from the film until now because its not on the magazine cover. The film was from 1962 so it wasn't a tie-in.

[bs1wl]

nice one