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Book: Songs & Chanties: 1914-1916

The chapters include:

    Songs in Sail-1914
    Sailor Town-1914
    The Naval Crown-1915
    Fighting Men-1916

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  • Shipmates (1914)
    Good-bye and fare ye well; for we'll sail no more together,
    Broad seas and narrow in fair or foul weather:
    24 lines, 4 comments
  • The Ballad Of The Eastern Crown
    I've sailed in 'ookers plenty since first I went to sea —
    An' sail or steam, an' good or bad, was all alike to me;
    57 lines
  • The Old Whale
    When I'm growing old (if I'm getting tired of sailing
    Up and down the seas, and always finding something new),
    25 lines, 1 comment
  • The Ballad Of The Matterhorn
    By Casey's Occidental Rooms, when the sun is getting low,
    The chattering crowds of Chinatown along the pavements go,
    40 lines
  • A Sea Burthen
    A ship swinging
    As the tide swings, up and down,
    18 lines
  • The Last Of The Sealing Fleet
    All in the slime of the stagnant Arm, the mouldering slips beside,
    Where dark as sin slinks out and in the fouled and furtive tide,
    39 lines
  • Rolling Home
    Oh, there's places up and down that are queer and quaint and pretty;
    Sydney's a pleasant port, Frisco's a giddy city;
    34 lines
  • Dead Man's Bay
    I thought I heard the Old Man say,
    (Leave her, Johnnie, leave her!)
    39 lines, 1 comment
  • Paradise Street
    As I was a-walking down Paradise Street,
    A bonny young maiden I chanced for to meet;
    35 lines
  • The Long Road Home
    There's a wind up and a sighing along the waterside,
    And we're homeward bound at last on to-night's full tide:
    28 lines
  • The North Sea Ground
    Oh, Grimsby is a pleasant town as any man may find,
    An' Grimsby wives are thrifty wives, an' Grimsby girls are kind;
    34 lines
  • Armed Merchantmen: An Old Song Re-Sung
    By the Liverpool Docks at the break of the day,
    I saw a flash packet, bound westward away;
    29 lines
  • Sacramento
    'Frisco City's grand and gay
    (Sacramento, Sacramento!)
    34 lines
  • The Rhyme Of The Inisfail
    Limehouse way, the other day, as I did chance to be,
    I met with a hairy sailorman was shipmates once with me,
    90 lines
  • The Coast Of Barbary
    My lad is on the water and far away from me,
    And I pray God be good to him wherever he may be,
    23 lines
  • The China Sea
    Did you see the poor old hooker, by the ocean wharf she lay?
    Her decks are foul with harbour grime, she hasn't long to stay,
    43 lines
  • Deep Water Jack
    O it's "ah fare ye well," for the deep sea's crying,
    You thought you could forget it, but it's no use trying,
    24 lines
  • The Ballad Of The Resurrection Packet
    Oh, she's in from deep water, she's safe in port once more,
    With shot-'oles in 'er funnel which were not there before;
    53 lines
  • The Message
    It was about the midnight hour,
    I heard the wind go by;
    25 lines
  • Rathlin Head
    We left the murk of Merseyside, we left the flaring town;
    All smouldering red by Spanish Head the stormy sun went down;
    38 lines
  • Mother Carey
    As late I went a-walking by the sea,
    I thought I heard men talking, I heard them call to me:
    33 lines
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