You Never Knew That You Wanted To Learn About 'Sea Shanties', But You Do
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry Show |
| 0:16.5 | There once was a ship that put to see in the name of the ship was a billi-o-t |
| 0:21.5 | The winds blew harder bowed it down below my bully boys. Blow |
| 0:26.8 | Soon May the Wellermann come to bring us sugar and tea and rum |
| 0:31.8 | One day when the tongue and his done will take our leave and go |
| 0:36.3 | She'd not been two weeks from shore when down on her right well bore |
| 0:41.3 | The captain called all hands and swore he'd take that well into |
| 0:45.8 | Soon May the Wellermann come to bring us sugar and tea and rum |
| 0:50.8 | One day when the tongue and his done will take our leave and go |
| 0:56.3 | Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. |
| 1:05.8 | What we knew with a drunken sailor, … |
| 1:08.3 | There was a traditional song that was popular among British and American sailors |
| 1:13.3 | And it's actually made something of a comeback |
| 1:16.8 | Because the people that are on TikTok, I'm not on TikTok |
| 1:20.8 | But people who are will find videos and send them to me. |
| 1:26.1 | And they've been doing a remake of this. |
| 1:29.2 | Various people, it's called The Coast of High Barbery. |
| 1:33.8 | It is most frequently sung as a ballad, |
| 1:37.1 | but it can also be a sea shanty. |
| 1:40.9 | A sea shanty is a genre of traditional folk song |
| 1:46.3 | that was once commonly sung as a work song |
| 1:50.6 | to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large merchant sailing vessels. |
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