The Shanty Book - Sailor Shanties - Part I - With Pianoforte Accompaniment

by Richard Runciman Terry, Sir Walter Runciman

First published in 1921, "The Shanty Book" is a vintage collection of traditional sailor songs-or, shanties-compiled into this volume by Richard Runciman Terry. Each song comes complete with the original lyrics and clear sheet music, and are perfect for those with an interest in learning or performing traditional sailor songs. Contents include: "Windlass &Capstan Shanties", "Halliard Shanties", "Fore-sheet of Sweating-up Shanties", "Billy Boy", "Blow, My Bully Boys", "Blow the Man Down", "Boney was a Warrior", "Bound for the Rio Grande", "Cheer'ly, Men", "Clear the Track, Let the Bullgine Run", etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with specially-commissioned new introduction on folk music.

Genres: Music

82 pages, Paperback

First published March 24, 2011

Reviews

[Mrs. J.P. Cantle · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book needs some editing to remove extraneous commands.

I first picked up this book when my kate husband had dementia. Stuart Cantle was quite well known for his shanty singing round Bristol in the early 1970's. He asked me to collect akl his songs into a book for the family; by then he could no longer read and write. I purchased this book to help me.
The introduction and explanatory chapters are quite good. It soon becomes obvious that RR Terry has no good opinion of folk song collectors. Writing in 1921 he almost dismisses Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams as charlatans!
Reading the book is difficult because there are periodic commands to ,listen, which made me wonder if it was originally conceived as a lecture ir talk on shanties?
It is alsi littered with the words eighths and sixteenths which are totally irrelevant.

[Athena · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great resource but poorly formatted, especially in the last section where it lists the actual lyrics of the songs.

[nério · Rating 2 out of 5]

bangers only

[Carl Palmateer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting but the very annoying [listen] throughout the book was not helpful.