Quotes About Shanties

Oh dark woman With a shawl and ribs I could have served him better With my shanties. But men do love the shimmer And so his ghost Is hacked in half between us The dark me and the dark you.

Glos'ter girls they have no combs,Heave away, heave away!They comb their hair with codfish bones.

Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you,Way-hay, you rolling river!Oh, Shenandoah, I long to hear you,Ha-ha, we're bound away,'Cross the wide Missouri!

What shall we do with the drunken sailor,Early in the morning?

Whiskey is the life of man,Whiskey, Johnny!Oh, I'll drink whiskey while I can,Whiskey for my Johnny!

Oh, blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down!To me way-aye, blow the man down.Oh, blow the man down, bullies, blow him right down!Give me some time to blow the man down!

A-roving, a-roving,Since roving's been my ru-i-in,I'll go no more a-rovingWith you, fair maid!

Good-bye, fare you well!We're homeward bound for New York town,Hurrah, my boys, we're homeward bound!

The sight of so many ruins destroys any desire to build shanties; all this ancient dust makes one indifferent to fame.

I'm inspired by films from the early '50s, especially Jean Simmons in 'The Clouded Yellow' - and by vintage swing, psychobilly gigs, sea shanties, and English folklore.

He loved when Nate sang shanties — the songs sailors crooned as they did their work.

The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

Puritanical observers of the goings-on at Kororareka were horrified. Charles Wilkes, who visited the Bay of Islands with the U.S. Exploring Expedition in 1840, described a slum town made up of "about twenty houses, scarcely deserving the name, and many shanties, besides tents.