Cornish Sea Shanties

Arr. Enjoy this video as it pans across Port Isaac Harbour to the live sound of a genune sea shanty being sung in the valley below. Also, ignore Mum at the end.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Cornwall
• sea
• shanty
• port
• isaac

[captainsharkey]

Nice video, really good to see something Cornish left

[malx1975]

Enjoy these things for these are the old ways, you won't seem them again....

[cornubian]

@TheMarrification - Don't worry boys we will get it all back. Just wait and see.

[kalach]

It's the Fisherman's Friends singing. They're from Port Isaac and sing every Friday evening in summer.

[3tangle3]

@TheMarrification Totally agree, I have cornish relatives, I hope the cultural variety of this world can survive....not liking the grey conformist consumerist grey blob that society is threatening to become :/ with no community or family links

[TheMarrification]

@3tangle3 like in the prayer book rebellion in 1549 when 11% of the population of Cornwall were slaughtered, and their complete whole hearted backing of the king in the civil war. Up until the end of the 17th century they were very much regarded as a sepreate people completely and if it had all gone differently they might be in the same position as Wales by now. The big thing is if they had also translated teh Bible and common prayer book into Cornish by the 1540's that would've been a big help

[TheMarrification]

@3tangle3 Thats pretty spot on actually, lol. It's a sad thing but the attitude of teh Cornish sometimes lets them down. They can be very blunt and obtinately defiant without any regard for authority, tehy just treat everyone them same and expect the same curtesy which I think is fantastic, very integral people; but, throughout hisory that blunt defiance hasn't been met with the capacity in arms and size to stand up for themselves...

[3tangle3]

@myrddinwilt49 the biggest bullies win, we have to be more agressive...problem with many welsh and cornish is they are too soft and nice......which is a utopia to me but you have borders unfortunately

[3tangle3]

@myrddinwilt49 pasties are correct, but if from my research those families who only lost the cornish tongue in the 1600s or 1700s still call them oggies (esp in west kernow)

[3tangle3]

@TheMarrification the welsh are barely hang on so dont know whats going on down there.....we always think of cornwall as being cymru (wales) if it lost its language

[TheMarrification]

The culture and strong Cornish heritage I was taught growing up seems rare back in the old country now. My family were part of the mass migration out of Kernow to look for work and a better life at the very end of the 19th century; my gran was born a year later, her and my mum had children later in life, so alot of the very old authentic Cornish ways and culture has been preserved to this day. We could teach quite a few how to be Cornish again. Kick out the second home owners from up country

[Squats200]

I bet half of these people singing are bloody northerners anyway!