| Description |
1 score (xviii pages, 328 pages) : illustrations ; 26 cm |
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score |
| Note |
Texts of the songs, with tunes supplied by the editor from various sources. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-328). |
| Contents |
Coast of Peru -- A prayer at the start of a voyage -- A fitting out -- Whalefish song -- Greenland whale -- Cruise of the Dove -- Whaleman's lament -- Whalers' song -- A whaling scene -- Our old friend Coffin -- Wounded whale -- Rolling down to Old Mohee -- Diego's bold shore -- Old hulk -- Bark Gay Head -- Bark Ocean Rover -- Desolation -- Wings of a goney -- Blow ye winds -- Ship Euphrasia -- A wet sheet and a flowing sea -- Sing the flowing bowl -- Loose every sail to the breeze -- Captain James -- Topsail shivers in the wind -- Sequel to Will Watch -- Sea -- Saturday night at sea -- I was once a sailor -- Hearts of gold -- Tempest -- Can of grog -- Pirate of the isles -- Demon of the sea -- Rover of the sea -- Most beautiful -- Sea ran high -- Ocean Queen -- Storm was loud -- Neptune -- Dauntless sailor -- Sovereign of the sea -- A life on the ocean wave -- Covent Garden -- Cupid's garden -- William Taylor -- Tarry trousers -- Captain calls all hands -- A young virgin -- Nobleman's daughter -- John Riley -- British man-of-war -- Pretty Sally -- Banks of Glenco -- Beggarman -- Bright Phoebe -- Dark-eyed sailor -- Mantle so green -- Our ship she is lying in harbour -- Silvery tide -- Undutiful daughter -- Ship carpenter -- Pride of Kildare -- Lily of the west -- Maid on the shore -- Lovely Caroline -- Turkish lady -- Times -- Sons of liberty -- Lass of Mowee -- Heathen dear -- Moon is brightly beaming love -- Shearing day -- Sarah Mariah Cornell -- John Brown -- Banks of the Schuylkill -- Banks of Champlain -- A new liberty song -- A song of the Nantucket ladies -- Springfield Mountain -- Blessed land of love and liberty -- Sons of worth -- John Bull's epistle -- California song -- Captain -- Confession -- Virtuous America -- Indian hunter -- Willie Gray -- Shepherd's daughter -- A new song -- Croppy boy -- Queen of the May -- Sheffield 'prentice boy -- Song on courtship -- When first into this country -- O Logie O Buchan -- Aran's lonely home -- Fair Betsy -- I had a handsome fortune -- Bonaparte on St. Helena -- Bonny bunch of roses-O -- Bonaparte -- Green linnet -- One night sad and languid -- Farmer's boy -- County of Tyrone -- In days when we went gipsying -- Rinordine -- Behind the green bush -- Reily's jailed -- First time I saw my love -- Shepherd's lament -- Women love kissing as well as the men -- Fanny Blair -- Silvery moon -- Willie's on the dark blue sea -- Banks of Banna -- Maid of Erin -- Adieu my native land -- Angels whisper -- Bride's farewell -- Dying soldier -- Genette and Genoe -- Mary's dream -- Ocean -- Thou hast learned to love another -- We met 'twas in a crowd -- Jamie's on the stormy sea -- Adieu to Erin -- Blow high blow low -- Rose of Allendale -- Beacon light -- A new sea song -- Down Wapping -- Bible story -- Farewell my dear Nancy -- Turkey factor in foreign parts -- Sailor boy's song -- A sailor's trade is a roving life -- Hunter's Lane -- Fare you well -- Moll Brooks -- Nelson -- Bonnet of blue -- When I remember -- Come let us be jolly -- Ye parliaments of England -- Old horse -- An ancient riddle -- Wait for the wagon -- Prayer -- Pilot -- Lord our God -- Row on -- Recruiting sargeant -- Post below -- A love song in the year 1769 -- Elegy on the death of a mad dog -- A charming fellow -- Wreath -- I can not call her mother -- Village born beauty -- As I grow old -- Norah darling -- Sailor's farewell -- Terrible Polly -- Wide world of waters -- Song of Solomon's Temple -- Poll and Sal -- Keyhole in the door -- Sandshark -- Billy O'Rourke -- Now we steer our course for home. |
| Subject |
Whaling -- Songs and music.
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Whaling. |
| Genre/Form |
Songs and music.
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Sea songs.
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Songs.
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Songs.
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Notated music.
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Notated music.
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Music.
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Music.
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| Added Author |
Huntington, Gale, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Songs the whalemen sang. Barre, Mass. : Barre Publishers, 1964 (OCoLC)555617174 |
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Online version: Songs the whalemen sang. Barre, Mass. : Barre Publishers, 1964 (OCoLC)607666089 |
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