Singalong
Welcome to the Work-In-Progress singalong page! Sea shanties usually have a call-and-response verse structure, alternating lines sung by just the shantyman with refrains sung by everyone, but others have a more recognizable verse and chorus structure. Some of our songs have both refrains and choruses, others just one or the other, and some have neither! This is where you can find all of the singalong parts for each song, sorted alphabetically by title. Happy shantying!
The Bonnie Wee Lassie’s Answer
Donald Where’s Your Troosers?
Down Among the Dead Men
Drunken Lullabies
Drunken Sailor
The Duke of Argyle
The Eddystone Light
Excursion Around the Bay
The Female Pressgang
Fiddlers Green
Fields of Athenry
Finnegans Wake
The Fish in the Sea
The Flying Dutchman
Foggy Dew
General Taylor
Ghost of John
Good Morning Ladies All
Health to the Company
Heave Away
High Barbary
Hog’s-Eye Man
Homeward Bound
Irene’s Pirate Love Song
An Irish Ballad
The Irish Rover
I’s the B’y
Isn’t It Grand Boys?
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye
Jolly Roving Tar
The Kraken
Leave Her, Johnny
The Leaving of Liverpool
Lilliburlero
The Lobster Song
Lowlands Away
The Maid of Amsterdam
Maid on the Shore
Martinmas Time
The Mermaid
Mermaids of the Harbor
Mingulay Boat Song
Mist Covered Mountains
My Little Lad
My Son John
New York Girls
Northwest Passage
Old Dun Cow
Paddy Lay Back
The Parting Glass
Pirate Queen
The Pretty Drummer Boy
Pump Shanty
Randy Dandy, Oh
Rio Grande
Rising of the Moon
The Rocky Road to Dublin
Roll Boys Roll
Roll Northumbria
Roll the Old Chariot Along
Roller Bowler
Rolling Down to Old Maui
Running down to Cuba
Sailor’s Prayer
Sally Brown
Santianna
Scrimshaw for Christmas
Shenandoah
Siren Song
Skye Boat Song
South Australia
Spanish Ladies
Steal from Everyone You Can
Streams of Whiskey
Ten Thousand Miles Away
That Sea, The Gambler
The Thirty-First Day of August
Three Drunken Maidens
The Trooper and the Maid
Tumblebones
Valparaiso
The Wellerman
Where Am I to Go, M’Johnnies
Whiskey in the Jar
Whiskey Johnny
Wild Rover
William Taylor
The Worst Old Ship
Yarmouth Town
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--just enjoy!
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 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
Boston Harbor
With a big bow wow, tow row row
Fol dee rol dee rye doh dae
Bully in the Alley
Help me Bob, I'm bully in the alley,
Way hey, Bully in the alley.
Help me Bob, I'm bully in the alley,
Bully down in Shinbone al’
Captain Kidd
Refrains for first seven verses:
…as I sailed, as I sailed
…as I sailed
…as I sailed, as I sailed
Last two verses:
…I must go, I must go
…I must go
…and must die, and must die,
…for I must die, I must die
…for I must die
…for I must die, I must die
Lest you come to hell with me for I must die
The Crayfish
By the wayside, aye,
Diddily aye-oh!
Crooked Jack
I was tall and true, all of six foot two
But they broke me across the back
By a name I'm known, but it's not my own
They call me Crooked Jack
The Dark Lady
Chorus 1 & 2:
And every night the Baron would drink a toast
He'd say, "Here's to our lovely lady host!
My one true love"
"Hear, hear!" the crew replied
And the Dark Lady sighed
Chorus 3:
That night the Baron drank with jubilee
He said, "Here's to my lovely bride-to-be!
My one true love"
"Hear, hear !" the crew replied
And the Dark Lady cried
Chorus 4:
That night the Lady drank a toast
She said, "Here's to your lovely lady host!
Your one true love"
No voices replied
And the Dark Lady smiled
Chorus 5:
And every night the Baron must drink a toast
And say, "Here's to our lovely lady host
My one true love"
"Hear, hear!" the ghost crew replies
And the Dark Lady smiles
Dead Horse
Refrain 1:
And we say so! And we know so!
Refrain 2:
Oh, poor old man!
Derby Ram
Chorus option 1:
And indeed sir, it’s true sir
I never was given to lie
And if you’ve been to Derby
You’d have seen it the same as I
Chorus option 2:
That’s a lie, that’s a lie
That’s a lie, lie, lie
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