Stan Ridgway: Hanging Johnny

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-:

Stan Ridgway - vocals, guitar; Kate St. John - English horn; Rory McFarlane - bass; David Coulter - violin; Terry Edwards - flugelhorn; Joe Berardi - drums; Pietra Wextun - piano; Mary Margaret O'Hara - bkg vocals; Mocean Worker - percussion
Recorded in Los Angeles at NRG - Engineered by Eric Liljestrand, assisted by Dave Colvin.
A maneuver called swigging was sometimes used to give a last strong tightening pull on a halyard. This essentially involved one or more sailors reaching high and hanging on the line with their full weight-hence, the association with hanging at the halyards where this chantey was used.

The artist Edward Henry Richard Harcourt-Smith in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Ridgway

Artist's page:
http://www.stanridgway.com

Images: Chih-Han Hsu: Your Cold Feet Only Stirred Up Dark Ripples,
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=feet&w=32865537%40N08

Lyrics and annotations in
http://ismaels.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/rogue%e2%80%99s-gallery-the-art-of-th...

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• siren
• sound
• sea
• sailor
• girl
• lake
• willow
• woman
• vintage
• ballad
• shanty
• drinking
• halyard
• chantey
• shanties
• forest
• creek
• gallows
• stream
• dark
• gloomy
• wet
• sad

[celtliam]

What is the with pictures of the girl?

[sidDkid87]

Stan Ridgway RULES!!!

[SuperHtwe]

Brilliant =O thank you for uploading

[Zartav]

One of my favorite songs on the album.