Bryan Ferry & Antony: Lowlands Low

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...

Antony is Antony Hegarty from Antony and the Johnsons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_and_the_Johnsons
featuring Kate St. John on oboe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_St._John
http://www.katestjohn.co.uk

Explanatory liner notes by record label ANTI-:

This is a classic halyard chantey once popular in the West Indies. Many of the verses are direct references to getting the sails aloft. The "lowlands" was originally a reference to the Netherlands.

And Hulton Ranzo Clint ( http://www.youtube.com/user/hultonclint ) adds:

This is a direct copy/cover of the recording by Ian Campbell, not the of tradition generally. Basically, Stan Hugill learned it from a chanteyman named Tobago Smith, and he printed it in his 1961 book. Campbell, presumably, read it in that book and made the recording. [He changed the objectionable word "nigger" to "laddie." However, this was a song sung by Black sailors, who used that word in those days. By use of the word "laddie," I think it perpetuates the misconception that chanteys were the domain chiefly of English/Irish/Scottish.] There is little or no other documentation of the chantey outside of Hugills text, so it is really stretching that ANTI calls it a classic halyard chantey. Also, lowlands in this obviously has nothing to do with the Netherlands! Their liner notes are a bit sketchy

Images: Alkalinemouse: just hanging around,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alkalinemouse/3417232507
Uncle Kuntz: ^uk^ LOST takes another twist,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unclekuntz/3502065487

Lyrics and annotations in http://ismaels.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/rogue%e2%80%99s-gallery-the-art-of-th...

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[unclekuntz]

Nice, like it.

[wolfgpunkt]

Thank you, master of collages! :)

[pellepropell]

Beautiful!

[kolosmenus]

Still watching in 2012 :D

[dragonha1]

i enjoyed it

[AkatsukiFDP]

I love it!!!!!