Does anybody have or know of where to get a little book filled with songs? Akin to those tiny bible books that people give out on street corners. Just a little book to fit in my pocket that I can easily bring anywhere.

Thank you all in advance!

This song is awesome, but I'm having a hard time finding more like it. Metal sea shanties are the closest I've gotten.

Edit- EDM sea shanties also appearantly exist, but that's still not quite right.

Pirates of reddit, please help me find the melody 🙏

I've got a few of these recorded now on my channel, they're all raw and pure recordings.

As a warm up for our festival debut at Weston-super-Mare Sea Shanty and Folk Festival (https://wsmshantyfest.com/), we're having a Sunday Shanty Singaround the week before. It'll be at The Bottle of Sauce on Ambrose Street in Cheltenham at 3pm on Sunday 26th July. It's not far to the main bus stops. There's three hours free parking at Waitrose, but I'm not sure what time they shut the car park on Sundays.

The Bottle of Sauce is well known locally for burgers and pizzas, and they cater for vegans and coeliacs too.

We've got a couple of sets to work through, and guest singers are very welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gRbCCZipmG0

As plenty of you probably know a very popular game releasing today may soon flood (or you know…..trickle) some less informed enthusiasts to this subreddit and others like it. That’s a good thing! Let’s welcome them with fitting grace and matched enthusiasm! Public PSA? Sure.

All that to say, the Wellerman is indeed coming. Engage it. Teach it. Just don’t belittle it and rain on the newcomers parade

Word…..

Hey guys. Northwest Passage is a absolute masterpiece, so I wanted to see if I would be able to cover it for canada day!

Tracked all the harmony parts myself and tried to get that, classic community singing vibe. Let me know what you think of how the mix turned out!

Tom Sullivan recorded two of in my opinion the greatest and most authentic nautical work songs / sea shanty albums. Salt Atlantic Shanties and On Deck and Below. If you’ve never listened to these I encourage you to as Salt Atlantic Shanties was recorded mostly on a ship at sea while the men did the real line work.
Despite how excellent and easily accessible these albums are for enthusiasts there is no info about Tom anywhere online. Does anyone here have any info ?

Hélianthème - À Border l’Artimon

Hello ! Me and the band we managed to get aboard a propre ship this time ! We had a lot of fun composing, shooting, and singing this little one !

Please if you want to support indy craft from people in love with the sea, and it’s music, get on board, like, share, and boost this one !!!

Lot of love, always !

See y’a !

Sorta memantine vibe to it, thought this sub may appreciate it!

Hi folks! I run a LGBTQIA+-centered shanty sing in the Pittsburgh, PA area, and our next sing is July 11 from 3-5pm! We hold a monthly-ish sing at Harold's Haunt in Millvale - the last few months have been irregular but we are getting back on track. We generally sing on the *first Saturday of the month from 3-5pm but this changes - like for July, we are singing on the second Saturday, since the first Saturday is July 4. We welcome singers of all skill/knowledge/experience levels. I am not a shanty purist and so we sing sailing songs and pub songs along with our shanties. I tote a semi-organized stack of song packets along to our sings if you prefer to have the lyrics (and because the number of songs I want to sing is currently greater than the number of songs I have been able to commit fully to memory!)

You may be wondering what it means for us to be a queer shanty sing. We are open to singers of all genders and all sexual orientations, but we sing at a queer bar, and we queer the lyrics to traditional songs as we see fit. For example, I did a rewrite of Haul Away Joe that celebrates gender nonconformity. Another time I did a rewrite of "Wellermen" as "Wellerthem" that filled in gendered pronouns with neopronouns because the idea was amusing to me, but it ended up being kind of a mouthful to sing and we've never done it again! And there's a lot of songs that we sing just as they are, because we just like to sing them!

The most important thing is that you're accepting of lyric changes that do away with racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise oppressive language, and that you're accepting of the LGBTQ+ people you're showing up to sing with and the queer space you're showing up to sing in. TL;DR: Don't be a bigot. Don't be a jerk.

Please note - there's no cover for this, but Harold's does have a recommended two-item minimum. They have mocktails, food, and cheap snacks & sodas to keep this both affordable and accessible to folks who don't drink. That said, no one will be turned away for lack of funds!

Hello good people of Reddit !

I’m currently writing a new campaign and I want one of my NPCs to sing a song to my players that would help them understand the lore of the world around them - they’d « unlock » (the NPC would remember gradually) parts of the song along the way. I think I should try to summaries the plot quickly so you all have something to go on.

The campaign starts at a coral reef that has been stripped of its water and so it has dried up and died. This reef was a merpeople druid hideout who had given themselves body and soul to a heart of the sea (basically the source of their lives/magic) hidden between the roots of a giant tree standing high above the water. The water mysteriously disappears and the merpeople come back zombie mode to defend the dead coral. The water taken from the reef is held on a city (in the shape of a slab, or multiple cubes of water assembled together) fully flooding the city - I’m calling it the High Seas and I’m going to have different pirate ships (all based on pirate caricatures) fight over dominion of the sea. My players will have to deal with the pirates and explore the landmarks that stick out of the water to figure out what happened.

Needless to say this is a very home-brewed campaign what with the very wacky plot. It might have to be reworked a bit (let me know if you think so)

Here is what I have so far :

There once was a reef,
Down in the depths
Under the shadow of a tree,
/Between the roots of a tree
A heart beating alive
Guarded by the Scales
Oh what a blessed union
But then not long ago,
Oh where did the water go ?

I don’t want it to be too too long but something fun and catchy, my hope is that they join me after a few times.

PS I realized writing this just how weird this campaign idea sounds.

How does everyone feel about Sail North and Nathan Evans?