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Air Mail Music: Sea Shanties - Leave Her Johnny
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Air Mail Music: Sea Shanties - Leave Her Johnny
Genres: International Music, Pop
 
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This album includes traditional shanties from the early days of navigation around the New Zealand coasts. Shanties were divided into halyard shanties (hauling songs), windlass or capstan songs used for heaving the anchor, ...  more »

     
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All Artists: Air Mail Music
Title: Air Mail Music: Sea Shanties - Leave Her Johnny
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Label: Playasound
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 4/13/2010
Genres: International Music, Pop
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 3700089411922

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This album includes traditional shanties from the early days of navigation around the New Zealand coasts. Shanties were divided into halyard shanties (hauling songs), windlass or capstan songs used for heaving the anchor, and pump songs, used for pumping the ship out. On this recording we have tried to bring together as many types of sea shanty as possible, as well as sailors' hornpipes. The songs range from the famous "Drunken Sailor" to "Orpheus," relating the tragic loss of HMS Orpheus on the west coast of North Island. They are sung by members of the New Zealand sail training ship "Spirit of Adventure."