Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas

Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore. Acclaimed shanty devotee Gerry Smyth presents the background to each shanty alongside musical notation.

• | Author: Gerry Smyth, Jonny Hannah
• | Publisher: British Library Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jan 21, 2021
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780712353700
• | ISBN-10: 0712353704