SEA SONGS - online songbook
A collection of 70 Traditional Sea & Sailing related songs
with complete lyrics.
By W. C. Bennett, Published By Chapman And Hall London, Circa 1878
About This Book
There is no part of our history grander than that which records the triumphs of our seamen. Every Englishman ought to be familiar with the great men and the great deeds that have made ours the mightiest naval power that men have as yet known ; yet the daring, the magnanimity, and the successes of our sea-kings, lie buried in our prose histories, little known to any but literary students. There are good reasons why this should be altered; why our grand old Admirals and their days of victory should become stirring melodies for the whole nation, but especially for our sailors. Our iron walls must guard our shores from all invasion, as our wooden walls through centuries have shielded us from hostile approach. The English people must be made to feel that pride in our navy which shall induce them to make all needful sacrifices to maintain its full efficiency and power. Those who man our ironclads must be full of that old spirit which defeated the Armada and won Trafalgar. It is strange that our poets have done no more than they have to keep alive our pride in our ocean rule, and our determination that it shall never be lost. Let me endeavour to supply our sailors and the people with some songs which shall make our Blake and Vernon, our Anson and Exmouth more than names to them. If I succeed, I shall rightly feel that I have laboured at a work which may be held to be even of national importance. I have used the ordinary language of the people, intending my songs to be such as can be felt and sung by the class for which they are written. I have trusted to the grandeur of the incidents narrated and the dramatic truth of the feelings uttered, to interest and stir my readers. If it be urged that the length of some of my songs renders them unsuitable for singing, I reply that in the intervals of leisure which a sailor has, he will as readily listen to a ballad as to a song. A forecastle audience requires what the hearers of our old ballads demanded—plenty of stirring incidents and strong, true feeling simply expressed. These I have sought to give. My success or failure will be determined by the adoption or neglect of my songs by our blue jackets themselves. To them I send forth my volume, not without a strong hope that I shall not have written for them in vain. I have concluded my volume with two poems connected with the sea. The pleasant way in which my ' Songs for Sailors' have been received by my literary brethren and the people, lead me to hope these Sea Songs will not be unwelcome to English readers.
SEA SONGS, Index
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Title Page
DEDICATION
DEDICATION
PREFACE
PREFACE.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
CONTENTS
With A One, Two, Three - 0101
Page - 0102
What Lubbers They're On Shobe - 0103
Page - 0104
It's In Us, That's All - 0105
Page - 0106
Give Her A Gale And She'll Go - 0107
Page - 0108
Strike And Strike Hard - 0109
Page - 0110
My Heart Is North With You - 0111
There's Nothing Like A Smoke - 0112
Page - 0113
From Cape Horn - 0114
Old Grog - 0115
Page - 0116
Page - 0117
Page - 0118
The Sailor's Dream - 0119
Page - 0120
Abe We Changed From What We Were ? - 0121
Page - 0122
Take Me, Lass, For Life - 0123
Page - 0124
So I Go, My Lads, For Pluck - 0125
Page - 0126
Page - 0127
A Kiss To Take To Sea - 0128
Love Peace, But For War Be Ready - 0129
Page - 0130
The Letter Edged With Black - 0131
Page - 0132
From The South Seas - 0133
Page - 0134
Our Fine Old Commodore - 0135
Page - 0136
Page - 0137
Ready - Always Ready - 0138
The Apparition - 0139
Page - 0140
The Launch - 0141
Page - 0142
Walking The Watch - 0143
Page - 0144
Sir Edward Pell At Plymouth - 0145
Page - 0146
Page - 0147
Page - 0148
Page - 0149
A Whaler's Song - 0150
Page - 0151
Page - 0152
It's Absence Makes Us Fondest - 0153
Page - 0154
Salt Junk - 0155
Page - 0156
The Land, Boys, The Land - 0157
Page - 0158
To The Marquesas Islands - 0159
Page - 0160
Page - 0161
Page - 0162
Were I That Gull - 0163
Yo, Heave Ho - 0164
Page - 0165
When First I Went A Whaling - 0166
The Old Stuff Is Here In Us Still - 0167
'tis True That Our Lot Is But Rough - 0168
Page - 0169
Says Nancy To Me When I Parted - 0170
Page - 0171
Oh, I Care Not For The North Wind - 0172
Their Hearts Are With Us, Boys - 0173
Page - 0174
Sailing Home - 0175
Page - 0176
We Would Not Think Of You In Tears - 0177
Tight And Saucy - 0178
Page - 0179
How We Saved Them - 0180
Page - 0181
Robert Blake - 0182
Page - 0183
Page - 0184
Marryat In The Imperietise - 0185
To The North Sea - 0186
The Dear Ones We've Left At Home - 0187
You Landsmen May Have Plenty - 0188
Page - 0189
She's Sweeter To Me Than The Best Of Them All - 0190
He's All Right In Whose Pocket There's Always Some Chink - 0191
Page - 0192
Why Don't They Come To Sea ? - 0193
Page - 0194
Page - 0195
Page - 0196
May All Go With The Tide - 0197
To The Pacific - 0198
Page - 0199
Page - 0200
Here's To Van Tromp And De Ruyter - 0201
Page - 0202
The Togs, They Do Not Make The Sailor - 0203
Page - 0204
Page - 0205
The Swallows - 0206
The Moon Drove Through The Scud On High - 0207
Nay, Neveh. Cry, Lass - 0208
Off To Sea - 0209
Page - 0210
O Winds, Tell Me Where Does My Sailor Sail The SeA - 0211
Page - 0212
That's Our Way - 0213
Page - 0214
That's Our Way - 0215
The Wife's Watch - 0216
The Winds, Inconstant Ever - 0217
The Wrecked - 0218
Page - 0219
Home-Bound - 0220
The Chase - 0221
Page - 0222
Page - 0223
The Bursting Of The Boom - 0224
Page - 0225
Page - 0226
A Song From The Sea-Poets - 0227
Page - 0228
Page - 0229
At Clovelly - 0230
Page - 0231
Page - 0232
Page - 0233
My Old Fishing-Boat - 0234
Page - 0235
Page - 0236
'tis The Free That Rule The Sea - 0237
Page - 0238 |
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