Lyrics
Welcome to the singalong lyrics page! Sea shanties usually have a call-and-response verse structure, alternating lines sung by just the shantyman with refrains sung by everyone. Some of our songs have both refrains and chourses, others just one or the other. This is where you can find all of the singalong parts for each song, sorted alphabetically by title. Happy shantying!
All for me Grog
Well it's all for me grog
Me jolly, jolly, grog
All for me beer and tobacco
For I spent all me tin
On the lassies drinking gin
Far across the western ocean
I must wander
Atlantis
Out walking the steps of Atlantis
Watching the waves sweep the sky
And the whole earth rings like thunder
As the whales call, passing us by
I’m climbing the towers of Atlantis
Fish eddy like clouds, gleam like stars
Or so I can almost remember
It’s so long since the surface was ours
The Banks of Newfoundland
We'll scrape her and we'll scrub her
With holy stone and sand,
For there blows some cold nor'westers
On the Banks of Newfoundland.
Barrett’s Privateers
Refrain:
How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!
Chorus:
God damn them all!
I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold
We'd fire no guns, shed no tears
Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier
The last of Barrett's Privateers
Black and Tans
Oh, come out ye Black and Tans,
Come out and fight me like a man,
Show your wife how you won medals down in Flanders,
Tell them how the IRA
Made you run like hell away
From the green and lovely lanes of Killashandra.
Black Velvet Band
For her eyes they shone like diamonds
I thought her the queen of the land
And her hair, hung over her shoulder
Tied up with a black velvet band
Blow the Candles Out
No refrain or chorus on this one, but feel free to stomp, clap, dance, etc!
Blow the Wind Southerly
Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,
Blow the wind south o'er the bonny blue sea;
Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly,
Blow bonnie breeze, bring my lover to
me.
Blow the Man Down
O, blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down
To me way hey, blow the man down
O, blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down
Give us some time to blow the man down
Bonnie Ship the Diamond
For it's cheer up my lads
Let your hearts never fail
For the bonnie ship the Diamond
Goes a-fishing for the whale
The Bonnie Wee Lassie's Answer
For I am forced to go, me love,
Where no one shall be know,
And the bonnie wee lassie’s answer
Was aye, no, no
Aye, no, no me love
Aye, no, no
And the bonnie wee lassie’s answer
Was aye, no, no
