A Chat with Cornish Shanty Royalty: Harry Glasson & Will Keating, and a live recording of Trelawny Shout - Bristol

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Hey, welcome to episode 15.

Thank you very much for joining us and I hope you guys are well.

Spring is in the air, the sun is out and things are just looking brighter and brighter.

Do you know what this great weather means?

That you can get out and about and enjoy more shanty singing.

And this month's episode is an audible delight of wonderful material for you, the listener.

We've got a live recording of a Trelawney Shout that was put together and run locally here in Bristol.

You get to hear us and some other crews and some singers that really just celebrated everything that is Cornwall.

We've got the usual segment of the Signaler.

We'll pop down and listen to him and tell us what we've been up to over the last month and where you can find us in the future.

And a very special centerpiece where we get to talk to two of Cornish royalty.

Harry Glasson and Will Keating, who clearly are legendary singers and creators of songs that are oozing with the greatness of Cornwall, is coming to join us here in the crew room to talk to you.

And they are Cornish royalty and it's an absolute honour that they agreed to come along and talk to us about how they got to where they are.

A bit of the background scoop of what Cornwall My home is all about and.

And how to kind of interact with them in the future and just a little bit about them.

It's nice to know about individuals, isn't it?

Anyway, first and foremost, we're going to pop down to the Signaler and hear some of the news of the Port of Bristol Shanty Crew.

Yo ho ho, shipmates.

It's the Signaler here with all of the news of the gigs and adventures from the Port of Bristol Shanty Crew.

So March got off to a fine start.

We had actually three gigs in one week, which was a little bit exhausting.

We were privileged to be able to support Nobby down at Lamyat, which is a small village down in Somerset.

It's got a Big connection to Nobby.

His parents are buried in the churchyard and the Rev actually did the committal proceedings for his mum, which was an amazing link.

And the lovely people there were raising some money for the church.

So we did a gig in the church hall, which was just the best fun.

I particularly liked it because they provided us with some free bottles of booze and a local cider, which I really.

So, yeah, a lovely evening, albeit a little bit of a drive for us, but we were very happy to do it to support Nobby.

Then in the middle of the first week, we had the Trelawney Shout.

So St Perran's Day, celebrating everything good about Cornwall, was held over at Frampton Cotterell by the Bristol Trelawney Shout Guys and featured four shanty bands ourselves, the then Bristol Girls, the Seven Wailers, the Frampton Shantymen, and a young guy called Ben Nicholls, who led us in a couple of songs, particularly Cornwall, My Home and Trelawny Cornwall, My Home, the unofficial national anthem now of Cornwall, written by the Amazing Harry Glasson, who you'll be hearing more from later in the podcast, I understand.

And then to round the first week off, we had a private gig down at Clevedon Golf Club.

A local connection or a family connection for me with my cousin Tracy.

And they were massively generous down there.

Tracy is the lady captain, raise some money, money for us.

And Steve, her husband, had some money from his year as captain that they threw in and, and gave us a really generous donation to the.

To the fundraising that we are doing on an ongoing basis.

Also in March, we did a gig, LinkedIn with the Rev, I think, at St.

Joseph's Care, home run by the Little Sisters of the Poor.

And it happened to be taking place on St.

Patrick's Day, so lots of greenery around.

The lovely, lovely nuns there were fantastic and I think maybe a little bit heavy handed in the pouring of the whiskey that they put into the Irish coffees.

But we had a great time.

They all joined in very enthusiastically and it was lovely to see them.

And if that's not enough, in March we also had our Christmas do.

Now, don't say that the crew aren't up to speed with everything, having their Christmas due in March, but it was the first time we could get us all together.

So we had a lovely evening down at the Bank Tavern.

Sam Gregory and his team looked after us there with his wonderful food.

Yeah, and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, including obviously having a couple of songs to regale all of the staff with.

But it was great.

So moving Forward into April, it's actually reasonably quiet because May is going to be an absolute banger of a month for gigs and we'll talk more about that in a minute.

But April, we've got the next of our residency evenings, as we like to call them, down in Nova Scotia.

Again, Sam Gregory Pub on Sunday the 13th so please come down.

We did the first one and we realized that perhaps the positioning of where we sung wasn't the greatest.

So we're going to change that around.

Maybe even if the weather's nice enough we could do something outside.

But Sunday the 13th of April at the Nova Scotia.

Please be there for a night of some lovely beer and some a bit of singing.

So you'll hear more about May next month.

But I do want to flag up the the first of the dates or the big date that we've got in May, which is the Bristol Beer Enchantee Festival.

On the 10th and 11th May held its park street, the Masonic Hall, a fantastic building.

The first one was held last year and it was a great location.

Be able to stand around with a few pints of beer and cider.

And here are all the bands.

We've got something like 15 bands already committed to coming entertain over the two days.

It's going to be a great weekend.

I urge you all to get online, look for on our website where you can get tickets and enjoy all the brilliant beer that's going to be created, curated again by Sam and his helpers.

And we're really looking forward to it.

So I think that's all of the news from the Port of Bristol Shanty Crew.

So this is me, the signaller signing off.

Bye bye.

Thank you, Ash.

Great to hear about what we've been up to and more importantly what you guys can do to interact and find us in the future.

There's plenty in our current schedule.

We're looking forward to a very busy summer and of course everything is coming together to get all the planning organized for the Real Ale and Shanty Festival in Bristol where we as the Port of Bristol Shanty Crew are supporting the organizers in getting this great event together.

So a lot of this information, if you want to find out more, is available on our Facebook page.

So please do search us at the Port of Battle Shanty Crew.

We've got a little community so just request to join and it's a really good way of catching up with kind of live instant updates of what's been going on.

And it's also a great community so you can interact with other people that just love what we get up to and love the world of shanti singing.

But also it's a great space of hearing about the kind of events that we've got planned in the future.

So you can pop that in your diary and make sure you come along as well.

If you're interested in buying tickets for anything that we've our ticketed event, then please do pop over to the cruise website, which of course is POB.

Shantycrew.co.uk so next up, we are popping down to the crew room and talking to the wonderful Harry Glasson and Will Keating.

So, listeners, here, we are now in the crew room and we are blessed and so excited to welcome to, in my eyes, Cornish royalty in the world of shanti singing.

We have of course got the wonderful Harry Classen and of course, Will Keating.

Gentlemen, welcome.

Welcome to you.

Thank you very much.

It's so good to have you here.

And of course, on this very special Cornish episode, it is absolutely right to talk to you both.

And of course, Cornwall, My Home, is very special to me because I do get an opportunity to sing that within the crew.

But of course, Harry, amongst many incredible songs that you've written in your time, Cornwall, My Home is sung a lot around St.

Perran's Day.

It's sung around.

But yeah, nearly every shout is.

That's.

Everybody seemed to be singing it.

It's lovely, you know, it's such a lovely song.

It's such a lovely song.

Well, it would be right, Harry, to talk just a little bit about how did you get into this world of singing and creating wonderful songs?

Because our listeners will clearly look you up online and see you've got loads of great songs.

But Uncle More Home is one of them.

But if you can just a little bit of a.

How did you get to where you are today?

I needed the money bad.

It's a good motivation.

How do you do it?

I don't know.

I've always loved poetry, I've always loved music and I was heavily influenced by the American sort of folk country and I just put it on.

The songs just came really, you know, through playing and playing and I never thought they would be anything, you know, just I used to sing one or two of an evening maybe about that.

And it really wasn't until Will took them on and he was singing sometimes 10, 12 of them at night on my song.

I was thinking, the boy's going down the wrong road, he's going the wrong way.

But he stuck with it and he.

I mean, he's made it for me, you know, I had to lose my voice before I could become anything well known, really.

Oh, bless you.

Bless you.

And Will, you're clearly making money out of his success as well now.

Oh, absolute fortune.

Yes.

No, it's.

I also, I mean, obviously Harry and I have grown very close since, since we got to know each other, but for me it was, it was a big decision for me to leave my full time job and pursue a career in music.

It's a big risk.

I've got four daughters and a wife.

But I had Harry's backing and I had faith in his songs and that gave me confidence to it.

You had more faith than I did.

I know, but, yeah, I am a bit stupid.

I think there's things in this world that are beyond our control, you know, and you believed in what you were doing and I, I just wanted to help you.

I just really hoped it would work out for you.

And thank God it did.

And then we had Covid.

I thought, well, that's the end of that.

But you got through that one way or another.

And it's going from strength to strength.

And I think it's wonderful.

Oh, yeah, it is so good.

And I think it's great to see that some of those songs, those poetry, those things you just.

That came natural to you, Harry.

And, and Will's picked them up and, and brought them to.

Brought them back to life, if anything.

Plus he's been written some good ones himself too.

Yeah, I will.

Yeah, absolutely.

We'll give him a bit of the limelight first.

But you first, Harry.

And so your fascination, your passion for Cornwall, that, that just oozes throughout all of, all of your songs and tell me what Cornwall means to you.

But where I was born and brought up, it means everything to me.

Yeah.

And I was a Tour guide for 23 years.

My own tour guide business.

Okay.

Well, of course that just enhanced everything really, because I was showing the place I love to other people.

Yeah.

And when you start showing your own area to somebody else, you find you learn a lot more about it.

Yeah.

Other people are far more passionate about parts of it than I was.

Yeah.

And I'm thinking, well, yeah, my God, they're right.

That.

What beauty there is in that I never realized, you know, and things like that.

And they opened my eyes as much as I opened theirs.

I think the duchy is such a wonderful space and there's so many hidden gems everywhere that you.

That you'll always discover.

But yes.

I mean, people used to say to me, where did you go?

You didn't have to go anywhere really.

On a beautiful day, sun shining off the sea, where do you need to go?

You could just stand there and talk about what's all around you.

I know that the world became popular with staycation, but we all knew that we didn't need Cornwall was the staycation.

You didn't need to go anywhere, you're just beautiful there.

But on a day when you had 70 miles an hour fog with heavy rain, then you earned your money.

Oh, yeah.

Yes, you certainly did.

And.

And so Cornwall, my home, is clearly, as, as we all know it, a very popular current song of yours.

Let's talk about how did it come about the inspiration and how did you pick those particular gems of Cornwall to feature within your song?

But just places I love, you know, and they bit of my school for me.

I didn't sit down and look at a map and think, I gotta do this.

I.

I just sang it, you know, they're the places that came to me and the things that meant Cornwall to me and I never realized that it meant those places meant so much going on Cornwall to everybody else as well.

It's one of those things really.

I didn't set out to write it, I just set out to write something I loved, you know.

Yeah.

And I guess your experience as a tour guide, you kind of knew these places well.

What I love about it is that it's not just a.

A tour around Cornwall, but you bring references of history, brings out to life within your song.

Well, we've got a lot of history to think about, you know, 5,000 years you can go and see, you know, we have 5,000 years history and it's all around us.

I'm going to go far to do it.

No, absolutely not.

It's so beautiful.

I'd loved a BBC Radio Cornwall, I think this year.

Did a tour, didn't they?

They went to each of the spots and did something.

It was quite good.

They did.

Other people have done it.

I've met people before now.

I met a chaplain, the star in One Day in Saint Just.

And he said, he's marvelous me and you hear.

He said, I've just been doing your tour.

I've been following your song around.

He's opened in Duland sun and I've been up on Cornbread.

Yeah.

You know, and I thought I'd end up in the storage.

I never ever thought of you being here.

And then I happened to be there having a Pinterest.

I guess tour guides now use it as the Harry's tour and so Will, tell me, how did you meet this marvelous man that is Harry, and talk about that early days of your kind of linking into his songs and of course, eventually creating your own.

Yeah.

So I was working for Skinner's Brewery at the time and the orgymen had just started six months previous.

They were a group of male Cornish singers that were sort of getting together and they've sort of ripped off the songbook of Kate Cornwall Singers.

And when they were.

I was in an event that they were at and they were singing and I sang along and Rob, who's the musical director, if you like, asked me whether I'd be interested in coming for a little thing just to, you know, just not a tryout, but just for a bit of fun, really.

And I said, look, I can't commit myself because I had young children at the time, another on the way, two foster kids as well.

But I went once and that was it.

I was.

I was hooked.

Hooked.

And I've been there for the last.

For the next, what, 13, 14 years?

Yeah.

And that's.

And that was.

That was where I got my first introduction to Called My Home.

Yeah.

And I met Harry first.

I met Harry was at my first gig for the Argument, which.

Which I wasn't supposed to be with, gigging with them, but Andy Rowe, one of our members, broke down and I was at an event, so I didn't know any of the words to a lot of song, but I chucked in at the deep end and mumbled way my way through.

And now look, you don't mumble at all.

You know it off by heart and many others.

Yeah, the Argument is a great group and definitely wor listening to on the many different platforms that you have your material on.

But of course you've got your own material all over social media and of course on all, you know, Apple music and Spotify and everything else.

And of course, you should obviously purchase CDs from you as well.

You've got the.

The bug to write your own song.

Yeah, and that's.

It's funny, Harry and I are on a little tour at the moment and we call it an Audience with Harry Glass and World Keegix.

We talk about our relationship and.

And what our inspirations were and stuff.

For me, I always wrote poetry when I was younger, mainly funny sort of rhymes.

I wasn't very good at reading, so I didn't really read much, but I always wrote poetry.

But when Harry sort of gave me the license to record his songs.

He.

Allowed me to do what I wanted with him, really.

So I learned a lot, especially as a solo performer, about composition of a song, how to make it interesting, especially when there's any three instruments, let's say.

And that's helped me no end with my.

With my songwriting.

It's helped me progress into my own songwriting.

And Harry gives us a hand as well, whenever I need it.

That's so good.

It must be a lovely compliment that Harry comes along and sings your songs as well as you sing in his.

Yeah, we wrote our first song together.

Well, would have been five years ago, soon, the first lockdown, a song called A Remembered Walk.

Harry chucked some lyrics over to me via Zoom or whatever it was, and.

Yeah, so that was our first collaboration.

So that was.

Yes, that was quite special.

I said it's one of my favorite songs, the dance.

I like it.

Oh, that's lovely.

That's really nice.

And we'll play a little of that track now.

Del Tree Petwa.

Tell me, have you ever walked from Zenith to St Ives?

Along the cliff thrifts in May or June Amid the seagulls cries Atlantic rollers gently break Below the winters are rafts of thrifts at tear on tear to set the rocks afire.

In the early.

Morning dew before the buzzards rise Suspended seals watch your pass with liquid limpid ice and oyster catch Just take to flight With a piping call the morning streamless tinkle as down the cliff they.

Fall.

So clearly you both are on tour together and you've got a bit of a mission to go around Cornwall and to share these songs.

And I've certainly seen you a few times on.

On.

On social media, that you've gone into local schools.

Well, I've always been back before I lock my voice or anything like that.

I did quite a bit with schools.

And it's funny because although Will and myself, we met one night, eight, nine years ago, our lives have run so sort of parallel.

It's amazing, really, the rugby.

I played rugby through school and things, and I love me rugby.

The navy.

Pardon?

The navy.

Yeah, Then the navy.

But I was in the proper navy.

And I was in the Royal.

In the merchant navy.

That Royal Naval job.

They're bagged up in there, you know, they.

They're all looked after and everything.

We had to look after ourselves, you know.

I bet you sang lots of shanties whilst you're in the merchant navy.

I was quite often too drunk to remember, to be honest.

Is that Nelson's blood?

It got you every time.

Our lives have been very similar, haven't they?

We've Done very similar sorts of things and I did a lot of schools back before I lost my voice and it's lovely to see the world doing the same thing.

I do a bit now, I don't do very much to be honest, but I was in the school last weekend.

For me, I think I first went into my children's school when they were all at primary school and then the first ever Cornish folk concert I produced was down at Cincinnati Church down in Zena and I took some of the children from that school down there, including my three of my daughters and I just saw the enjoyment of the primary school children singing in particular Cornwall, my home.

And Song for Cornwall, more recently singing Camborne Hill.

And it's.

For me it's just a.

It's just a no brainer.

It's just a simple way of teaching children in a fun way about their own heritage and actually installing some pride in where they're from and where they're growing up.

So, yeah, I enjoy it immensely.

So for the last two years I've taken a thousand children to our biggest theater, the Hofgommel, and for a Cornwich mass sing, which is mental.

They're amazing, isn't it?

The hall for Cornwall is just beautiful, isn't it?

But it's a beautiful, beautiful place and it must be phenomenal to stand there with all those people and having a mass singing.

Yeah.

Harry couldn't make it this year, sadly, because he went that well.

But last year he came along and for me to get a thousand children singing the chorus to call my home to him stood on the stage was probably my biggest achievement.

It was amazing.

It was, you know, tears in your eyes, job, you know.

Yeah.

It's great that you don't get bored of it, Harry, because evidently you probably hear it a thousand times, many different versions, but it still brings emotion.

Yes.

I don't know, I don't get.

I don't get bored with it, I must admit.

I don't.

I'm singing myself occasionally.

So.

It's an earworm.

It's so lovely.

Obviously, Harry, you have lost your voice but you're still battling on, but you're clearly susceptible to poorliness etc these days.

But yeah, you're doing all right with that.

A little thing like that.

Yeah.

Enables me to speak is amazing, you know, it's phenomenal.

And it was cancer that got you, was it?

And then.

And been treated.

Is that how it's all gone?

Yeah.

Throat cancer?

Yeah.

Oh man.

It was cancer of the vocal cords, the worst.

It was only on the vocal cords.

When they took the vocal cord away, I didn't have to have chemo or radiotherapy or anything like that, just the operation and I removed all the cancer.

And that was 16 years ago, you know, about 16 years I wouldn't have had.

Yeah, really good.

And you're still able to sing and you're still able to do what you want to do?

Within limits, of course.

Yeah, the singing and that.

Because of this.

It's called Hands free.

Normally I press the button to speak, but this thing, I've had it now about five, six years, and that allowed me to play the guitar and sing again and talk without having to press the button, which is wonderful.

Oh, so good.

And we're blessed to see you still going strong and still adding content to it all.

So Falmouth Shanty Festival is just around the corner.

The Port of Bristol Shanty Crew is coming down.

We're all coming down from Bristol.

We're looking forward to that.

I'm camping in.

In.

In the rugby ground.

I've got a little spot there.

So I'm looking.

I'm looking forward to that.

You guys clearly going to be there, I hope.

And tell me what you're looking forward to.

That.

That festival.

Well, I just got in every year these days, just getting in the venues and I need air.

So I got again, going back pubs these days, not good for me, but I go down to see people, really.

So all I do, I go down, pick up a pint up in the moor and I pick up a few pints on the way through the town and end up down in the square and just meet people, you know, on the way out.

I only do that one day now.

I used to do the whole festival, but I don't do that.

Yeah, it's exhausting.

I'm getting too bloody old now.

You got the youngster to do it now, Harry.

You'll be fine, Will.

I'm guessing you're gonna be.

I'm guessing, Will, you're going to be a bit more active and a bit more out.

Yeah, it's.

It's probably my favorite.

Well, it's my favorite weekend of the year.

And as Harry said, it's.

It's not necessarily about the singing, which is amazing, but the atmosphere is always great and you just meet up with people you haven't seen for a year and there's a great camaraderie between all the different groups and it's great.

You know, you can.

You can just wander around.

They're very.

The events are free.

You can Listen to like any festival, you just stumble upon something.

Yeah.

And think, wow, that made my weekend, you know.

So I saw a sing with Yogi Men.

We normally do about seven to nine gigs a year but we've started reducing it.

We have the Saturday night off now, we did last year, but so I've taken the opportunity for me to do a gig on the Saturday night as well.

So it's good because it keeps me.

Keeps me steady with my drinking.

Yeah, yeah.

Now the Portal Bristol Shanty Crew have a very clear rule of a two pint rule before any gig.

However, that doesn't work when you've got several gigs in different pubs.

You just don't remember the last one.

Oh dear.

A partner proper job and you're.

That's it.

It's a.

Oh, it's just a.

It's just a great weekend and it really shows off.

I mean it's been.

I was on when I worked for Skinners, I was on the committee of the Sea Shentley committee.

So I've seen how the town managers have managed the growth of it and they've just done so well.

It's got some.

They've got another.

A few big venues, new venues.

This year I think Falmouth Hotel is gonna have a big marquee on the front of it.

So that's a lovely spot right opposite Castle Beach.

Very nice.

Yeah.

So, yeah, that's gonna be good.

So I can't wait.

Yeah, me too.

It's the first time I've come down.

The crew were there last year but I was busy.

But you know, looking forward to this and I'll be hopefully recording lots of material for the podcast.

Harry.

Will, what next?

What.

What is out?

What is on the radar?

Any spoilers?

Any new material that we're expecting or you're just going to enjoy life that you're already doing?

I'm just breathing day to day at the moment and enjoying it.

I hadn't made any plans.

I never have been a planner.

You do it directly.

You do it directly.

Yeah.

I've never been a planner at all.

I've always kind of flown by the seat of me pants and I really enjoy life that way.

I never have been.

My wife will tell you, which I wasn't more of a planner than I am.

Too late in the day to start changing that habit, hey, Harry?

Exactly.

It's a habit of a lifetime.

I don't want to go changing that.

I do to play around these days.

I do have a list of songs with me because I just forget what I'm doing what I can do.

But yeah, I never used to have a gig list ever.

You know, I need to off the cuff.

Yeah.

And it's always been that.

Yeah, I'm finding I can't do that so easily these days.

But yeah, play it by earbud.

Yeah.

I think we're the same.

We have a set list which is planned prior to the event, but actually there's quite a few that we'd like to see.

And sometimes the crowd just needs something else to bring them alive.

Yeah, absolutely.

You've got it.

You've got to.

And it's no good of an ace, you know, rigid sense.

You've got to be able to be adaptable.

And like I said, now I'm getting older, I've got to look and thinking, well, yeah, of course I could do that one.

But I can't think you're on my.

On my feet in the same way anymore.

Yeah, no, of course, of course.

Well, now remembering the lyrics, that's great.

I've had 49 years of marriage that take it out of you.

Well, love to your wife because she clearly looks after you incredibly well.

Over there in the corner.

She's in the corner and she's giving us a wave.

Current wife.

Okay.

By the time this comes out, it might have changed.

Will, how about yourself?

Anything for us to all to look forward to.

Are you still like Harry, plodding along, enjoying.

Yeah, it's just, it's just.

I mean I'm opposite to Harry.

Suppose I do plan.

I think I've.

I've self diagnosed adhd, I think.

Okay, that's okay.

Yeah, I know I can't keep still.

I'm always thinking.

So we've got some exciting.

Obviously Harry and I have got like we've got three more gigs on this little tour we're doing up at Campbell Rugby Club on Friday and then we're up to Chanel a month after and then up to Cannington.

So yeah, venturing up that way and then I might be going to Glastonbury with the Augie men.

I'm still waiting for confirmation of that, which is going to be awesome.

Is that a spoiler?

Are we allowed to know that Augie's going to be at.

Well, we might not be.

I'm still, I'm waiting for the email like this with fingers in her mouth.

But it's kind of on our territory and we keep dropping hints to, to the relevant people that the Port of Bristol shanty crew would love to be there.

So difficult to get into because everyone in the world is trying to get in there.

Yeah.

That's the thing, isn't it?

And they all want to replicate the Fisherman Friend success.

We've all watched the film and clearly that's the way to be successful.

Yeah.

Well, the funny thing was I watched the film, but I was at Glastonbury when the Fisherman's Friends sang there.

And on the main stage, on the Pyramid stage, I actually went there and there was only about 60 people there.

Okay.

Because it was like 11:00 in the morning.

Yeah.

It's the dull time.

Everyone's sleeping.

Yeah.

It's funny on the film there's like hundreds of thousands of them.

Artistic license, maybe?

I think so.

I think so.

A great film and yeah, there's a lot of artistic license that.

In that film.

But yeah, no good.

So lots of things planned and planning in your head for the future.

Yeah.

So I do a candlelit concert tour of Cornish churches every winter.

Last year there was 40 dates.

This year probably be the same.

Yeah, there's a few concerts, Tree Bar Amphitheatre and Penley Park Open Air Theatre, Coronation park in Helston.

So some quite nice gigs where I'm bringing in different musicians with me to play.

So sort of trio, quartet type stuff.

Oh, that's great.

Well, I'll include your website in the show notes.

So, listeners, if you are interested in popping down to the wonderful world that is God's country, that is Cornwall, then you can catch up with Will in one of his many gigs.

Yeah, I did try and get you both to come out to our shanty festival in Bristol, but as like many people, you're just really busy, so maybe one day we'll get you up to Bristol and you can sing up here and enjoy.

Yeah, no, definitely.

Where does it take place?

It's in the centre of Bristol on Park Street.

It's the Masonic Hall.

That's there.

There's.

We've got.

There's three big kind of dining rooms and it's two days.

It's going to be great.

Really good.

It's kind of the second year, really popular last year.

We'll make sure.

We'll reach out to you.

Mel Babb came up last year and really.

And yeah, it was great to have her there and she was a great addition to all the shanty singers that were there.

But I will make sure that we contact you guys for next year and to come along.

But clearly our paths will cross at Falmouth and we'll talk to you then.

Yeah, yeah, look forward to Seeing you then.

Nice.

Well, gentlemen, thank you so much for your time and for everything you do for Cornwall as a Cornishman.

Thank you.

But most importantly for just adding content and value to the world of Shanti Singh and folk.

Because clearly people still love it, it and you're still doing it, so it's great.

Well done.

Thank you very much for having us on and.

Yeah, well, I'll see you on Friday.

Yeah, see you Friday, Harry.

Yeah, thanks, Justin.

Thank you.

Thank you, chaps.

It was an honor to talk to you both and thank you for supporting what we get up to within the port of Brittle Shanty Crew.

Now, it's just a little bit of a plea right now to you, the listener.

You know that everything we do fundraise is for a wonderful charity, which of course is the Teenage Cancer Trust.

We've been in existence for just under three years now and we're.

We're just over £42,000 raised towards this wonderful charity and they've been getting every single penny that we've raised to make the lives of teenagers better.

Remember, every day, seven young people in the UK will hear those awful words that we dread as adults, which is, you have cancer.

And the Teenage Cancer Trust specialize in ensuring that these teenagers receive sensitive individual care and they support them to go through what probably is the most hardest time of their life.

And we as a crew are dedicated to ensure that everything we do raises money for them.

So what I'd like you to do right now, if you are willing and able to, and we would love you to pop over to our website, pobshantycrew.co.uk the link is also in the show notes and click on the donate page and just donate as little or as much as you possibly can.

Even if it's just a pound.

It is.

It makes a massive difference.

And.

And everything we do is free of charge to entertain you and we would love you to, if you could put your hand in your electronic wallet and give just a pound towards this wonderful charity.

And like I said, pop over to our website and click on the donate and of course we will welcome your donation.

So we finished this episode with live coverage of the Trelawney Shack that was recorded on St.

Pyrran's Day here in March.

And it's a great way of hearing us and other shanty crews and some singers that were taking part.

It was a really well attended event and we're going to jump straight in to the opening act, which of course was then Bristol Girls.

O Ry O Come White Stocking day you'll be drinking.

R O R O has gone away Goodbye, my sweet heart Goodbye, my hero O mighty o'reilly Goodbye, my darling Goodbye, my dear or has gone away.

We.

Upward mountain for the Bengal day.

All right.

Has gone away Goodbye, my sweetheart Goodbye, my dear all righty.

O All right.

Goodbye, my darling Goodbye, hero Alm has.

Gone away.

Goodbye, my sweetheart Goodbye, my.

Dear.

Goodbye, my darling Goodbye, my dear.

So the next song is called Botany Bay and Jo is going to sing it.

We will try to written down.

Once.

She remembers which couple she needs.

Don't worry.

There will be an end well.

To all England forever Farewell to my sweetheart as well.

Keep my child safe in your arms Love, I need you like no words can tell to rely I'm sailing to Boston He b Captain.

It is our commander.

He sails with the stars in the sun oh, where my light I'll return again to my dullness we can.

Days.

Seven long years I'm transported Seven long years into dead oh, I wish I were drowned on the ocean Only take on my true love Way I saw all my opinions and oh, I fly to the arms of my body I'm to Eli I'm saying to the tea I'm Satan too.

We were given the challenge of learning to sing this with sign language.

And that challenge was by sue there.

And she taught us to do it.

And apparently we did not.

Bad job.

So we're going to sing it to you and sign it for the with British Sign language.

Maybe, maybe, maybe.

If it's something offensive and anyone knows what it is.

Please don't break our hearts.

I just never give it up.

When love just seems so far away Keep pulling, keep pulling the tide will flood your heart someday Keep holding, boys when you're gliding stars in the cloudy sky Keep pulling, keep holling you find your way to the bright sun Rise and raise your voice hold your voice and don't let go Keep all in voice when you gain your best at and your heart stay true Keep pulling, keep pulling there's only one thing left to do Keep pulling Bo when you p so hard and you lost your hold Keep pulling, keep pulling Remember your faith rewards the boat Keep holding boys Keep falling hope Rise and raise your voice hold your corpse and don't let go Keep holding voice Wherever your voice ship and wherever your sea Keep on in, keep on in Wherever your storm or your rocks may be Keep holding voice Keep holding hope Rouse and raise your voice hold your course and and don't let go Keep holding voice Keep calling home Rise and raise Your voice Hold your voice and don't let go Keep holding voice hold your voice hold your course and don't let go.

Keep holding voice Granddaughter to get to.

Sleep the only time she ever wants me to sing to her.

So I hope you're all right.

Captain Captain you love your brandy.

Queenstown to Dover is 100 miles or over where shiny o Queenstown took over I wish the trip were over way shiny o Captain Captain the levy my daughter where they Shiny o Captain Captain Olivia daughter where Shiny o Shiny o is the captain's daughter Where Shiny o the hero where I'm sailing over the.

Water.

Rivers are a rolling and I can't get over when sh Captain Captain you are a dandy quake Shiny o Captain Captain you love your branding hey.

So we going on board the saucy roll One Monday morning in the month of May One Monday morning in the month of May I thought I heard the old night and say the ro today and we're going on board the Rosabella we're going on for the Rosabella we're going on for right down for the saucy ro She's a deep watership with a a deep water crew She's a deep water ship with a deep water crew.

You can stick to the coast bell dam if we do for the ro and we're going on for the Rosabella we're going on for the Rosabella we're going all for the for right down on board the saucy roll around cap at the break of day all around Cape Horn at the break of day all around Cape Corn It's a bloody long way aboard the roll going on for the Rosabella we're going on for the Rosabella we're going on board right down on board the saucy Rosabella if they spend my money and they wait till le aboard the Rosa Bella and we're going on board the Rosabella we're going on board the Rosabella we're going on board right down on board the saucy rose of battle.

So this is our last song.

And you are.

You will know the tune, but it's.

Our version of it.

So you will join in once the chorus is end.

She asked if I could see her place she lived on Charlotte street and away t my dear Annie oh where bristow girls would love you for your money.

And when they got to Charlotte street it stopped at 24 her mother and her sister were waiting at the door and then they go inside the house were faster round the l was so awful Strong said when round and round and away sa My dear Annie oh where Bristo girls we love you for your money and then they had another drink before they had to eat the li was so awful strong he quickly fell asleep and away is a My dear Annie oh we're Bristol girls we love you for your money when he woke up next morning he had a naked head and there he was Jack all of us are naked in the bed his pocket and his pocketbook and his lady friend were gone and there he was Jack all the Lord and away Sandy My dear Annie oh where Crystal girls we love you for your money on looking round a little room there was nothing he could see the wood shift an apron that were no use to me he wrapped the apron wrapped him and to the do his ear he'll never pour without the stick to r and away Santi My dear Annie oh we're Bristo girls we love you for your money now saint morning if you have a ranking war don't mess around with Bristol girls you take for ranking war and away Santi buy here Annie so next was done.

Now we're going to have a little bit of a like a five minutes break come and.

Okay.

Good evening everybody.

How are we all doing?

Okay, Lovely stuff.

Hello everybody.

My name is Ben, Ben Nichols and before you ask you spell that with two L's.

Two L's 10 Nichols with two L's for those of you just to give a bit of a background about myself I'm originally from Cornwall.

Yeah, anybody like Cornwall?

Yeah, good stuff.

So I'm from a little bit of a little secret village called Boss Castle.

Okay, that was good.

And yeah so I used to sing before moving to Bristol for university and doing university I was living in Boscastle.

I was part of the sea shanty group called the Boss Castle Boys.

Good stuff.

You guys surprised me all the time already.

So yeah I used to sing with them a lot and yeah now I'm living in Bristol full time and thank you very much to having me come along here tonight so it's love to be here playing these songs for you.

I'm going to do a few songs for you and then I'll probably have a bit of a quick break getting you give you enough chance to get another drink ready for to 9:00.

So yeah, this first song I'm going to sing to you guys is a song if you do know any of the worst to any of these songs which I'm sure you will do.

Sing along as loud as you can guys.

I know it's only.

What day is it?

Wednesday.

But sing as long as you can.

Sing as loud as you possibly can.

Sing a bit.

Time this one was completely.

When I was just a little I told me Mommy told me Away all away we're always told that if I didn't kiss the girls we lips a little girly Away all the way we're all away, Jo.

Away all away we're all away together Weather Away all the way we're all the way too Away all the way we'll hope for better weather Away all the way we're all the way too King Lou was the king of France before the Revolution.

Away all the way we're all the way too.

But then he got his head cut off and his b.

His constitution.

Away all the way and we're all away, Jo.

Away all the way we're all away together Away all the way we're all away, Jo.

All Away all the way we'll hope for better weather Away all the way we'll haul away, Jo.

St.

Patrick was a gentleman he came from decent people Away all the way we'll haul away he built a church in Dumbtown upon it Buddhist people.

Away all the way we're all the way, Jo.

All away all the way we're all the way together Away all the way we're all the way, Joe.

Away all away we'll hope for better weather Away all the way we'll haul away, Joe hey, can't you stay See the storms out together gathering Away all the way we're all the way to.

Hey, can't you see the black clouds arising?

We're all away we're all away to Away all the way we're all away together Away all the way we're all the way to.

Away all the way we're off the bed to where?

Away all the way we're all the way to Away all the way we're all the way together Away all the way we're all the way, Jo.

Away all the way we'll hope the better Weather away all the way we're all away, Jo.

Well, everybody, you sound brilliant.

So, yeah, thank you very much, guys.

I'm gonna do just a couple of songs for you, as we're already nearly.

Nearly 9:00 already.

But yeah, as I say, guys, if you know any words to any of these songs, don't be afraid to sing along.

This is a song that I picked up from a buddy of mine who's also kind of into sea shanties and that sort of Thing.

This is a song.

I think in the.

Forgive me if I'm mistaken, they go to dream.

Not anybody heard that before.

Ideal.

Ideal.

That's a good reaction.

But yeah, few guys.

If you know.

If you.

If you know the worst guys, don't be single.

I've never heard of him.

Never heard of him.

Oh, my God.

He's got the merchandise and everything.

Ladies and gentlemen.

Oh, my.

Brilliant.

No pressure now.

I'm from Cornwall.

Are you.

Oh my.

I'm not a loner.

I've seen the boss before.

He definitely weren't there.

It was over 10 years ago.

Yeah.

I probably just came out of the womb of that.

Yeah.

If you guys know this song, it's called B Luck.

From the finest of Hamlet and dales Sydney and Bristol and the Ocho we hail Riding the finest of summertime gales we are bound with Bay of Souvala It's a way Souvala Bay Hauling away to the Souvala Bay Fare thee well my pretty young mates we are bound with a bay of Suva la.

Our wicked is bursting right over the the engines to carry this bold chevalier to pace the brave outdoor up over a mere we are bound with a bay of Su.

It's away Su Bay Hauling away to the Soua Bay Fare thee well my pretty young maids we are bound to the Bay of Swimming the and it's poles straight over and hard to the right the waters are clear and the sand is white oh, Mr.

Stopwood will set us alight.

We are bound with a bay of Suvala it's away Soup bay Hauling away to the Souvala Bay Fare thee well my pretty long mate With a pound with a bay of Sou well the wind in his fair and the stars of our light we sell our soul call for sweet olives and wine and string up the Kaiser By Thanksgiving time We are found for the Bay of Sua Bay Hauling away to the suit well, my pretty young maids we are bound to the Bay of Suvalari Hauling away to the Souvalape Very well, my pretty young mate we are bound with a fool we are bound with a fair.

Thank you.

Brilliant.

Thank you very much, everybody.

So I figured I've got this guitar on you, I might as well play it at some point.

So this next song I'm going to do for you.

This is a song I'm going to be a bit big headed here.

I'll be surprised if anybody's ever heard it.

And that's because it's a song that I'VE written.

Oh, yes.

And so, yeah, this is a song that I wrote when I was in last year at university.

And if you guys have got a smartphone and you got a camera icon, if you scan this QR code, it will take you to a link and it will bring up the lyrics to my song.

And I will teach you those lyrics now.

So if you've got a smartphone, you got the camera, widget, icon, whatever it is, get your smartphone, scan this QR code, and I can't explain to you, hopefully it will reach from that far away, but hopefully the right way up as well.

Nothing embarrassing.

So anyways, this is a song that I wrote.

So you have to say, guys, scan the QR code.

And it will bring you up a load of, like, buttons that you can click.

You want to click on the top one.

And it will say, there we go.

And it will say Queen Annie lyrics.

That's the name of the song.

Queen Annie.

So basically for reference, oh, we got a thumbs up over there.

I feel.

Good stuff.

It works.

Oh, it works over there as well.

Right?

No excuse then, guys.

No excuse.

So basically, in ref.

To kind of, in short, describe what this song is like.

If you guys know the song John Kanaka, it's kind of that sort of format.

I'm gonna sing like a line and then you sing like the cool response line to it.

And then I'll sing another line and then you kind of sing that one response line.

There's a chorus as well, but I'm going to go through all.

So, for example, hopefully a few of you now have got this QR code.

I can see your phone's all the way, but I'll put it a little bit more forward if that will work.

But anyways, I'm going to sing a line, guys, and then you just have to sing a line back to me.

So, for example, I will sing the first line and I will sing a line that goes like this.

I met a young lady down by the dockside and your line is hey ho.

That's all it is.

That's all in the verse.

All right.

All you got to do is sing that.

So I'll sing again.

We'll try it again.

I met a young lady down by the dog side he'll sing another line.

She was fair and pretty I had to say hey ho.

Sak Resolves.

Does that make sense so far, guys?

Give me a hell yeah, if that makes sense.

Good stuff.

Slashy verse.

There's a chorus bit as well.

If you've got the lyrics up, you'll see that.

You'll see that there's a chorus bit as well.

And if you've got the lyrics.

Brilliant.

I will sing it to you as well.

If the chorus goes like this.

Hey ho, she's like the Queen Annie hey ho, she's the only lady I see so that's the chorus.

Hey ho, she's like the Queen Annie hey ho, she's the only lady I see does that make any sense?

Give me a hell yeah, if that makes any sense.

Good stuff.

So I'm gonna do the chorus once more, everybody.

Here we go.

This is the sound check test run.

Hey ho, she is like the Queen Annie hey ho, she's the only lady I see There you go.

Vladimir.

Got it.

Brilliant.

Lovely.

Good stuff.

Right, here we go.

We're gonna give it a good go now.

So if you guys do forget it.

I'm sure there's a few people around that have got the QR code.

Just look over their shoulders and I'm sure they'll be able to guide you as well.

But as I say, guys, the first time I've played this song here, this is one of my original songs.

It's now.

It's not out anywhere yet.

I am hoping to release my debut album this year, and that song is hoping to be on that album.

So do stick around.

If you keep that QR code thing on your phone afterwards, you'll be able to see my notes and see when it comes up, basically.

So, yeah.

Thank you very much, guys.

We're going to sing.

Queen Annie is a song I wrote myself by Ben Nichols.

With two hours.

She was fair and free I had to say Heylah beautiful Her smile it shone like a set.

Of bows he.

Gave me eyes I could not deny he ho salah Chorus Singing he she is like the queen Annie Singing Hey O She's the only lady I see It's a bit wordy, but you're getting there.

She wore a suit dress the rare kind that you see she wore a cinch dress the red hind that you see Hey O sailor I was waiting to ask her to come along with me He O sailor the salt wind blew her from her eye he sailor she had long blonde hair and she gave me a sigh hey sing Hey.

O she is like the queen I.

Singing he's the only lady I see we shed a few drinks from whiskey to rum Hey O say we drank under the moon until we saw the sun he ho salah she could down the street and sing what else would you need?

He sailor she fit in well, with my life on water he ho sailor horse Singing he.

She is like the.

Queen I need Singing Hey O She's.

Your lady I see Then came a.

Time where I bid her goodbye hey.

Old sailor I said don't you worry this won't be the last time He Loud she can Singing he's like the queen Annie Singing he's the only lady I see Once more with in love Singing he's one like the queen Singing he's the only lady I see thank you very much.

Thank you very much, guys.

So I think about I got time for one more and then after I'll have a couple of minutes break.

Make sure you guys give me Give you a bit of a toilet break.

Give you a bit of a pint refill break.

And getting ready to sing for Lorni 9:00.

So, yeah, thank you very much, guys.

This is a song I'm hoping a few of you will know as well as always, guys, if you're liking what you're hearing.

My name is Ben Nichols, and yeah, this is a song I'm sure you know.

Sing as loud.

Sing as loud as you can.

I promise you.

I've only had a half time and this is a song you might know called Wild Rover.

I pinned along over for many a year and I spent all my money on whiskey and beer but now I'm returning with holding my soul and I never blow I went to the nail house I used to frequent and I told a lady my money was spent I asked her for ready she answered.

Me.

I and sorry bright and la Eyes open wide with delight and when Jesus me There's the words that you spoke they were only in just that it's no they never no a never.

More no, never no more I'll go.

Home to my parents Confess what I've done and ask them to pardon their prodigal son and when they caress me as off night before well, I never blade one woman no more and it's done.

And now I am going to lend me a wife I'll build a little no more But I'm your See you again next time.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much, guys.

You've got two minutes to until morning.

Make sure you get yourselves another p.

Go for a weed.

Do whatever you got to do.

Be back here for two minutes sharp and we'll eat you.

Thank you very much, guys.

Okay, everybody, it's 9:00, so would you please sit or stand, whichever you prefer to sing to.

Are you ready?

Are we ready?

Where's Paula.

To Paula.

Where's she going?

If anybody wants to come up here and sing it with me as well.

Singers on.

Yes, guys.

Don't leave me by myself.

Don't leave me by yourself.

Are we ready?

Come on, guys.

Come on.

Singing this right now.

I want to hear your voice.

Okay.

Are we ready, everybody?

Give me a hell yeah, everybody.

King James men shall understand what Cornish lambs can do and have a case the werwin and shout to his 20,000 Cornish men will know the reason why and shall Jelani live or shall tre die?

His 20,000 Cornish men will know the reason why husband Captain Bray and bolder merry white was he in London tower might Michael's hope will set the lordly free will cross the t My land of land the seven is no stake with one and all and hand in hand and who shall bid us name and shall trellon he live one shall tre his 20,000 Polish men will know the reason why when we come to London Wild men sight to you.

Come forth.

Come forth ye cowards.

All is men as good as you, Trelloney he may keep and hope Tiloni he may die.

The 20,000 Cornish bread will know the reason why.

Shall Trelawney live or shall Trelawney die?

There's plenty 80,000 Cornish men will know the reason why and shall Jeloni live well shall jaloni die?

His 20,000 Cornish men will know the reason why.

Hoggy oggy.

Doggy yog and no one will ever move me from his hand until the Lord calls me to sit at his hand for this is my heathen and I'm not alone for this is my home and this is my home I left childish process in the soft setting sun and no one will ever.

From his land until.

The lord calls me to sit at his hand for this is my God and I'm not alone.

For this is.

My call and this is my home first thing in the morning on chapel Conway Two days at the ceilings in the blue far away.

For this is time for more and I'll tell you.

Why Because I was born here and here I shall die and no one will ever move me from this land.

Until the.

And this is my home for Mrs.

Is my call and this is my home.

The next crew to come in will be the Puerto Rico shanti group.

So let's give them a few minutes to seven.

Oh, good evening everybody and thank you to the Bristol girls for inviting us to come and make your ears this evening.

As you have heard, we are the port of Bristol shanty crew.

That's Bristol with one L.

So we're very grateful to be Bristow girls for inviting us to come and see, because it helps us to knock another hour off our community service order.

And unfortunately, we're a few men down.

We're normally a crew of 12.

We're down to seven because everybody's come down with the dreaded upper respiratory tract infection which Fish gave everybody about, sort of.

We're really close.

I'm going to introduce Art Young Arthur Grannan.

He's a retired headteacher, so pay attention, make sure you're listening.

No talking or he'll be delivering his lines.

And now may lads be of good cheer for the Irish coast will soon draw near and then we'll set sail for the old Cape cliff I come get your oats moisten Whip jamboree Whip jamberry O pigtail salam Coming up behind Whip jamboree Whip jambury oh, come get your oats, my son and now me lay clears in sight Will be a foliage by tomorrow night and then we'll set sail for the Al Cape light Ah, come and get your oats, my son Enough Whip jamboree Whip jamboree Oaky tail cinnamon coming up behind Whip jamboree Whip jamboree O come and get your oats, my son Now May lads we're awfully egg no morsel beef or weevly bread One man in chains for two Heave the lead I come and get your oats, my son Whip jamboree Whip jamboree Happy tail salmon Come up behind Whip jamboree Whip jamba and Maria Come and get your oats, my son and now May la Swipe back in, doc.

We'll be down to the writing song on the spot and there we will drink a big pint pot of Buckham, Scotland Jamboree whip jamboree O pigtail saline gummow up behind Whip jamboree oh, come get your ropes, M Come get your ropes M Come and get your ropes My s.

As you can tell, we.

Or as you can probably tell, we all rehearse very regularly at least once every three months.

And our micro microphone technique sucks, too.

But it's brilliant to be back in Frampton.

Cottrell, which was my old stomping ground, still lives in the Bomber Church Road.

And dear old Art mentioning the Rising sun.

I remember those beautiful days when there.

Were seven pubs in Florence.

Seven?

You mean everyone.

Two a regular when you're a 13.

Is that right?

Oh, yeah.

Anyway, you've heard this song earlier on.

I'm Going to introduce Augie, who's the only genuine Cornishman in our crew.

And the only reason we recruited him into our group was so that we would have an excuse to sing Call My Home and Trelawney.

And it justifies Aisling in Little Eyes a bit later as well.

So he's sporting a slightly weird neck scarf today, but he assures me that it's genuine Irish Cornish tartan.

It's a special occasion.

I promise you it'll go blue later.

When I was just a little ad or so me mommy told me.

Away all the way, all away Joe.

If I didn't kiss the girls my lips will go a moly.

Away all the way.

All the way.

Go away, hey, all away.

We'll hold away together.

Away all the way.

We'll hold away Joe.

Away, haul away.

We'll haul for better weather.

Away, haul away.

We'll haul away Jo.

I used to date a Cornish girl but she turned fat and lazy.

Away all the way, all the way, Joe.

And now I'm with the Bristol curl in she just drives me crazy.

Away, haul away.

We'll haul away Joe.

All away hey haul away.

We'll haul away together away haul away.

We'll haul away Joe.

Haul away.

Hey haul away.

We'll hold for better weather.

Away, haul away.

We'll haul away Jo.

Louis was the king of France before the revolution.

Away all away.

All away Joe.

And then he got his head chopped off and it spoiled his constitution.

Away all the way we'll all the way Joe.

All the way.

Hey.

All the way we'll haul away together.

Away all the way.

We're all away Joe.

Away hey.

All the way.

We'll hold for better weather.

Away all away.

Away all away Joe.

Call yourself a second mate you can eat I a bow light.

Away all away all the way Joe.

You cannot even stand up straight when the Matthew she is rolling.

Away.

All away.

We'll haul away Joe.

All away.

Hey all away.

We'll haul away together.

Away all the way.

We'll haul away Joe.

Away.

Hey, haul away.

We'll haul a better weather.

Away, haul away.

We'll haul away Joe.

Walker.

How can't you see the dark clouds are gathering?

Away, haul away.

We'll haul away Joe.

Well now can't you see the storm clouds are rising?

Away all away.

We'll haul away away Jo.

Away hey.

All away.

We'll haul away together.

Away, haul away.

We'll haul away Joe.

Away hey, all away.

We'll haul for better weather.

Away, haul away.

We'll haul away Joe.

Away hey, haul away we'll haul away together away haul away we'll haul away away Joe.

Hey, all away we hope for better weather.

Brilliant.

Oh, thank you very much.

That was obvious.

Our newest member of the crew, actually.

He'S like, it's a baby.

Baby.

But I'm very pleased that he did join us because it means that I'm not the only one in gainful employment in the group.

They're all sponging.

Yes, sponging pensioners.

Thank you very much.

And they keep winding me up by sending emails to say, can anybody sing at 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon?

Anyway.

Oh, it's me next.

So this is an experiment song which kind of goes okay.

And we just wing it.

So, yeah.

O the esop river is the king of rivers all.

Yes, the kiva river is the king of rivers all.

Johnny somebody o Somebody o.

Johnny somebody o The s of kibo Boson is.

The king of boys boson soul.

The eson is the king of bonitana we are somebody o Somebody oh Johnny somebody o Somebody oh Johnny somebody o The.

Esokibo Sally is the queen of sally's.

All.

The esokivo Sally is the queen.

Of sally soul Somebody o Johnny somebody o Baritana now we are somebody o.

Somebody o Johnny somebody oh, we are somebody o.

Them bristow girls ain't got no combs.

Heap away, haul away they comb their.

Hair with codfish bones.

Bound away for australia Heave her up me bully bully boys keep her ra Haul away, heave her up and don't you make a noise.

Bound away for Australia.

Cape cod boys ain't got no sleds.

Heave away all away.

So they slide down the dunes on cod fish heads.

Bound away for australia here.

Heave her up, neighborly bully boys.

Heave away, haul away Heave her up and don't you make a noise.

Found a way for australia.

Frampton folks ain't got no ills?

Heave away all the way.

Cause the frampton doctors give them cod fish fish pills.

Found a way for australia.

Heave her up, me bully bully boys.

Heave away all away.

Heave her up and don't you make a noise.

Bound away for Australia.

I wish I was an admiral aboard.

A man of war.

Sam's on a way aboard a man of.

Well, I wish I was an admiral.

Aboard a man of war.

Sam's gone away aboard a man of war.

Pretty work, brave boys.

Pretty work.

I say Sam's gone away aboard a man of war.

Pretty work, great boys.

Pretty work.

I say Sam's Gone away aboard a man of war oh, the Essocibo river.

Is the king of rivers oh.

The.

Essequibo river is the king of rivers.

All Johnny Somebody O Banitana we are Somebody O Somebody O Johnny Somebody O Found a way for Australia.

Well done, Doc.

Okay, so next up is Old Bill, now new price us for guessing why he's called Old Bill.

I was an accountant and said he recognizes quite a few people here today.

So he's obviously done your tax returns now.

It's a long time ago and all their convictions are no space.

So Old Bill's going to sing Nova Scotia in a minute.

I am the sun was setting in the west all the bird.

Hang on, I'm starting here.

Got all the words.

And Nobby die is not here.

Yeah.

You with it.

The east song was setting in the west the birds they sang in every tree all nature seemed inclined for to rest but still there was no rest for me.

Farewell to Nova Scotia, you see Bound coast Let your mountains dark and dreary be for when I'm far away Away on the briding ocean toss Will you ever heave a sigh or a wish for me?

I grieve to leave my native land I grieve to leave my comrades all and my poor aged parents whom I love so dear and the bonny, bonny la sore I do adore.

Farewell to Nova Scotia sea bouncing.

Let your mountains dark and dreary for when I'm far away on the briny ocean toss Will you ever leave a sigh or a wish for me?

Oh, the crumbs beat loud and the war to alarm and their captain calls we must obey so farewell.

Farewell to Nova Scotia.

Johns.

It is early in the morning I am far, far away.

Farewell to Nova Scotia, you see, Bancos.

Let your mountains dark and drift.

For when I'm far away on the briny ocean tops Will you ever heave a sigh or a wish for me?

I have three brothers and they are dressed Their arms are folded on their breast But a poor simple sailor just like me should be tossed and driven on the deep blue sea.

Farewell to Nova Scotia, you see, Balco.

Let your mountains dark and dreary be.

For when I'm far away on the briny ocean tops Will you ever heave a sigh or a wish for me?

Farewell to Nova Scotia, you see, Bancos.

Let your mountains dark and dreary be for when and far away on the briny ocean tops.

Will you ever heave a sigh or a wish.

So it's great to be here at the British Legion in Ryckhoff room.

And to share your company, Shanti singing is just a brilliant family event and we get to meet loads of really nice, nice other crews and.

And brilliant people.

So it's really nice to see the seven whales of France and shantymen and then Bristol girls.

Thank you very much for inviting us to join you today.

We have a.

An alien in our midst.

Young skipper comes from over the water.

Yes.

Come on.

In lovely ways.

So he used to be a miner, but he didn't like dark spaces, so he gave that up and became a farrier.

And he also is the only one amongst us who actually sails.

He's got his own base and he sails to various places quite intentionally, usually.

In the wrong place.

But anyway, he's going to sing us a little song that we.

I don't know if we've sung this in public before.

First time.

Once.

We've done it once.

Okay.

So this could be a design.

No more than mine.

When a letter of marking from the King to the scummy is better I never think I've done them more.

I was told American gold We fire no guns, shed no tears Now I'm a loud the last of Barrett's privateers oh, Elson Barrett crazed the town How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now bar 20 brave men nor fishermen who would make for him the actual crew God damn them all I was told we cruised the seas For American gold We fire no guns, shed no tears Now I'm a broken man on the Halifax beer the last of our private years on the king's birthday we set to sail oh, I wish I was in Sherbrooke now we were 91 days to Montego Bay Punching like mad men all the way God damn them all I was told we cruise disease For American gold We fire no guns, shed no tears now I'm a broken man On a Halifax spear the last of our privateers on the 96th day we sailed again I wish I was in Sherbrooke now When I drink big Yankee ship jailed in sight where I cracked £4 wheel made to fight God damn them all I was stolen Cruise to seas for American gulf We fire no guns, shed no tears Now I'm a broken man On a Halifax spear the last of iron's privateers or the Ankule Low down with gold How I wish I was in Sherwood now She was broad and fat and loose in stage.

But to catch it took the Angelo.

Freeholding God damn them all I was told we Grew the seas for American gold We find no guns shed no tears not on a broken man I'm a half ax be the last of our private years Stood three cables away I wish I was in Sherbrooke now well, our fat cr Our crack four pounders make it all pulled in When I that more gangster I was told we cru.

Se for American gold We find no guns Check no tears now A broken man on the Halifax p the last of our private years How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now Now Balance was smashed like a bowl of air Legs and the main crack Main track cracked off both me legs God damn them all I was told we proved to sea for American gold We fired no guns shed no tears man on a broken man on a Halifax be the last of our private years to year I lay in the 23rd year how I wish I was in Sherbrooke now this been six long years since we sailed away and I just got to Halifax yesterday God damn them all I was told we cruise the seas for American gold We'd fire no guns Gentile man of a Halifax beer the last of our private.

Trying to keep to time.

There's nothing you need more than a shanty with 14 vices in it.

I miss that one.

So I'm.

I'm going to introduce you to Ground Zero fish, the source of our respiratory tract infections.

And he's going to sing.

They call it singing.

Try lose description alarm.

It's all for me grog.

Go on, men do.

Is that one singing?

Yeah, that's it.

Yeah.

And it's all for me frog Me charlie, Charlie frog all for me beer and tobacco well, I spent all my tin when the lass is drinking gin Far across the western ocean I must wander I'm sick in me head and I haven't been to bed since First.

I came ashore with me plunder I.

Sensed a beaten snakes and me head.

Is full of eight and I have.

To find the pathway at yonder and it's all for me grog Me jolly jolly grog all for me beer and tobacco Where I spent tommy tin with the lass's drinking gin Far across the western ocean I must wander where are me noggin noggin boots that are all sold for beer and tobacco the seasons were wearing thin and the ovens were letting in and the heels was looking out for better weather and it's all for me grog Me jolly, jolly grog all for me beer and tobacco well, I spent all my tin with the lasses Drinking Far across the western ocean I must wander.

Where is me shirt?

Me noggin noggin shirt?

It's also for beer and tobacco.

You see the slides.

Oh, excuse me.

You see the sleeves were turned about and the colors turned around and the tails is looking out for better weather.

And it's all fully grown.

We talked jolly, jolly grog all for mill and tobacco.

Well I spent Tommy tin with the lassie drinking gin Far across the western ocean I must wander.

Where is me wife?

Me noggin noggin wife.

She's all gone for beer and tobacco.

You see she loves to swear and shout and her teeth is swollen.

So I sent her off to look for better weather.

And it's all for me grog.

Me jolly, jolly grog all for me beer and tobacco.

Well I spent all meeting with the lass of drinking gin Far across the western ocean I must wander.

Where is me bed?

Me noggin noggin bed.

All song for beer and tobacco.

So I sent it to the girls.

Cause the springs was all in troubles.

Now the mattresses are like for better weather and it's all for me God me jolly, jolly grog all for me beer and tobacco.

Well I spent Tommy Tin with the lass's drinking gin Far across the western ocean I must wander and it's all for me growly jolly Far across the western ocean I must wander.

I'm going to invite somebody from the audience just randomly going.

The fickle finger of fate is going to point out Kale.

One of his.

Hobbies is that he likes to make podcasts.

And so he's going to help this podcast, which a number of you have actually participated in.

But the theme tune for our podcast is a beautiful song called Shipshape in Bristol fashion, written by this young man here.

And he's going to come and sing.

It for you now.

And after will sing Happy Birthday.

Every year.

You know what?

I wasn't gonna until you called me a young man.

Who?

I say call me a young man.

I'm probably the third youngest person here, which is quite astounding.

I was 12.

Yeah.

How was this girl?

Just like.

In the key of D demolished.

Okay.

Ship shaped from wrist of fashion boys along the harbor side from maven gods to under lie we score the barrels down below Bind them, tie and lash them.

This vessel she is certified its shape and bracelet.

And from my home in Bristol we'll set out from the quay Our ship is full of spices bound for America.

Sugar in the hull below and first mates up the crow its sails unfold and Catch and raise it soft as sea we go.

Ship shape and Bristol fashion boys along the harbor side from Avon bulge to rank or even and hold alive.

Barrels down below wind them, tie and lash em.

This vessel she is certified Ship shape and Bristol fashion.

You may talk above us sailing ships, their strengths and all their flaws.

Only the greatest vessels can navigate this gorge.

So steady on the jig me boys.

Keel over on your side.

Our shipments is secure me lads.

Our on the morning tide.

Shape and Bristol fashion boys along the other side.

From Avon Gorge to wonderful world.

Even all alive down below.

Bind them, tie and lash them.

This vessel, she is certified Ship shape and Bristol fashion.

Across the broad Atlantic the trade winds blow us forth.

We battle with the gale sailing for southwest and north far over the Atlantic.

That's where we'll make our crown.

But it won't be long at sol until we're Bristol home and bound.

Ship shape and Bristol fashion boys along the other side from Avon gorge to wonderful bohemian hole.

Alive is so much shape and briskal fashion.

So haul away me lady boys, haul away.

You're free all the way me laddy boys.

So all away me laddy boys all the way.

All free all the way me laddy boy.

Ring for me.

Funny enough, that last last bit of.

The whole rainy daddy boys bit I stole from a friend's band from Padstow in Cornwall.

Thank you.

Brilliant.

Cheers, buddy.

Okay, brilliant.

So we are going to finish with a wonderful little Cornish anthem which I'm going to live in the capable hands of young Asch, who is a one legged football referee.

I had a dream the other night, the funniest dream of I dreamt that I was kissing you behind the garden wall.

And she said, little eyes, I love you.

Hooray.

Little eyes, I love you, I love you.

In the street time and the honey, honey, honey honey Little eyes, I love you.

Honey little eyes, I love you, I love you the best of honey, honey, honey honey.

I woke my true love home last night.

Beneath the spreading vine I put my arms around her waist and pressed her lips to mine.

And she said little eyes, I love you.

Honey little eyes, I love you, I love you.

In the springtime I love honey, honey, honey, honey Little eyes, I love you.

Honey little eyes, I love you, I love you the best of honey, honey, honey honey.

Sound effects In a second I went to call on my best girl.

Her bulldog flew at me as good as it gets better right near my mate.

And she said, little eyes, I love you.

Honey little eyes, I love you, I love you.

In the springtime and the funny Honey, honey honey little eyes I love you Honey little eyes I love you I love you the best of honey honey, honey, honey it was not you that I did see behind the garden wall it was my wife looking at me she so very tall and she said Little eyes, I love you hey, little eyes, I love you, I love you in the springtime I and the funny Honey, honey, honey Little eyes I love you Honey little eyes I love you I love you the best of honey, honey, honey, honey.

Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you very much.

We are the Four Crystal Shanties.

Don't forget we are here this evening raising funds for the Royal British Legion.

So we will now be walking amongst you with our yellow collection buckets.

So please feel free to flutter some money into the bottom of the bucket.

And if we don't raise enough money, then we're going to come back and sing again.

Thank you very much.

Hello, everyone.

Good evening.

We are the Severn Whalers.

Just wanted to bit of an introduction.

I can feel Neil's eyes on me.

Now, none of us are from Cornwall.

But I learned something only about 20 minutes ago that my wife sang Trelawney.

At school and she went to school in East Anglia, so I don't know.

Quite how that works.

But anyway, we're going to start off.

By singing you a song about baked beans.

Next.

Seriously, the guy who wrote this song, he spent his summer working, filling Japanese fraters with hariko beans.

So a baked bean shanty.

Here we go.

Memories.

Load a man sack them you can't do it later Load them and stack them On a Japanese freighter Load them and stack them the holes are getting higher Load them on stack until the sun goes down Load and be just to make your pay Load and be but another pallet's coming Load and big way down into the hold so you gotta work on it Load em and stack em you can't do it later Load em and sack em On a Japanese trailer Load them at and stack them the holes are getting higher Load them and stack them till the sun go down well your hands are sold Load them and your back even more Load them be but another palette's coming Load them be way down into the hold so you gotta work and load them and stack them he can't do it later Load them and stack them On a Japanese freighter Load them and stack them the hose again higher Load them and stack them till the sun goes Break away break away Load them Clear the way clear the way Load em B But another pallet's coming load embedding way down into the hold so you gotta work on and load em and stack em you can't do it later Load them and stack them on a Japanese freighter Load them and stack em the holes are getting higher load em and stack until the sun goes down or will she spill to the toll so now's the time to stall load embi and button up the hole load embing but another freighter's coming so you've gotta work on and load a van sackle you come do it later Load them and stack them on a Japanese raider Load them and stack them the holes are getting higher Load them and stack them till the sun goes down Load them and stack them you can't do it later Load them and stack them on a Japanese crater load a man cycle Bringing the songs back home towards Bristol.

This song I found out only about two weeks ago was written by a group called Something Worms.

Bear with Worms.

Worms.

Notorious Worms, I think it was.

Canadian?

Yes, Canadian.

Yes, Canadian group.

But this is a Bristol version of their song made famous by friends of Longish Jones.

Oh, I used to be a farmer and I made a living fine.

I had a little stretch of land along the western line.

The times were hard and though I tried the money wasn't there.

Then bankers came and took my land and told me fair is fair I look for every kind of job.

The answer always no higher out ain't always laugh we just let 20 go.

The government they promised me a meaty little sum But I've got too much pride to end up just another boat.

So I said who gives a damn if all the jobs are gone?

I'm gonna be a pirate on the river sail and it's a he Jolly Roger on the seven's mighty shores.

You think the other farmers would know that I'm at large.

But just the other day I saw an unsuspecting barge.

I snuck up behind them, they were none the wiser.

I rammed the boat, I sank and I stored a fertilizer.

The bridge outside of Redwick spans a mighty river Farmers cross with some sphere the stomachs are a quiver Cause they know the tractor jack is hiding in the bay.

I check the bridge or knock them cold off sail off with their hay and it's a he coming down the plains stealing wheat and barley and all the other grains.

It's a ho hey ho Barbers by your doors.

When you see the Jolly Roger on the seven mighty shores no office and blackburn chase me always at my throat following on the shoreline cudgey kid in toner.

But cutbacks were a come in which made this copper blue.

So now she sing with a sound.

We call her whaler Jew.

Slashing swords and skullabones and pleasant company.

I never pay my income tax.

Scrutiny.

Screw it out, Basil.

Bury the terror of the seas.

You want to get to Bristol, boys?

Or Tesco boys?

You've gotta get by me.

And it's a he go.

Coming down the place stealing wheat to Marley and all the other grains it's a ho.

Hey hi ho.

Fathers by your doors.

When you see the Charlie Roger on the seven mighty shores.

The pirate life's appealing.

You don't just find us here.

I hear down in Cornwall there's a band of buccaneers.

They sell their seas from Saint I ran to Falmouth fay.

You're bound to lose your pasties when you get caught out that way.

Now winter is a coming chill is in the breeze.

My pirate days are over if this river starts to freeze now I'll be back in springtime.

But now I've got to fly.

I hear there's lots of plundering down in the Isle of W.

And it's a place stealing wheat of barley and all the other grains.

And it's a whole farmers by your doors.

When you see the Jolly Roger on the seven spiny shores.

And it's a he ho hi ho.

Coming down the plains Stealing wee to Marley and all the other rains.

And it's a ho.

Hey hi ho.

Farmers by your doors.

When you see the Jolly Roger on the seven mighty shores.

When you see the Jolly Roger on.

The seven spine show.

Hey.

Well, I'm a change man now I'm a deportee, A drifting home I'm breaking free.

It's the devil's own things I've seen.

But nothing scares the fighting me sweet.

Swing low, swing slow way.

Hey, we're pulling home.

It was bre.

What you going to do when the prisoner sings?

What you going to do when they're in full swing?

No reason to whine shore or crave just the wrong place at the wrong time.

Nine by six.

Are you ripped?

Break the bar.

Too small?

No.

Or too thick.

Swing low, swing slow way.

Hey, we're pulling open.

What you going to do when the prisoner sings?

What you going to do when they're in full swing?

We'll do it for the loss.

We do it for the fan.

We'll do you injustice.

We'll do to them proud.

They're going to run them all when.

They see us right.

This cage has quiet people Advise swing slow, swing slow way we're pulling home in the press and the roping what you going to do when the prisoner sings?

What you going to do when we're in full swing?

One of the church change man I'm drifting home I'm breaking free it's the.

Devil zone the things I've seen But.

Nothing scares the fighting B Swing low, swing slow way hey we're pulling home Papers press and R what's it going to do when the prisoners sing?

What you going to do when they're in full swing?

Swing low, swing slow way hey we're pulling home impression what you going to do when the prisoner sing?

What you going to do when we're in full swing?

What you going to do when the prisoner sing?

They haven't got a clue when we're in the next song is kind of corn related.

It's a song about fish.

We do have those.

Pilchard oil is a mighty fine oil.

Squish the fish gun Squish the fish.

Haul em in and pack them in.

The tin Squish the fish gotta squish.

The fish Pilchards pilchards mighty fine fish Cook em up put em in a pie Tails down, heads up starry gazy dish sticking up look em in the.

Eye Pill chilo is a mighty fun oil Squish the fish gotta squish the fish Hold a b and pack him in a tin Squish the fish gotta.

Squish the fish hey the hey the lovely oily flavor Primo put them in a pan hey bur hey bur Eat them up and savor Crunch the bones spit them out chew the tails Filtered.

Oil is a body but oil Squish the fish go Squish the fish Hole them in and pack them in a tin Swish the fish gotta swish the.

Fish Barrel, barrel Pack them in a.

Barrel Stick them in a smother Oven.

Sauce barrel barrel Pack them in a barrel Stick them in Smother ominous salts.

Pilchard oil inside oils Squish the fish, gotta squish the fish hold them in and pack them in a tin Squish the fish gotta swish the fish Pilches.

Pilches shine tiny shoal of fish Catch them all trap them in the same Pilchards, pilchards Send them all abroad Little.

Fish going on holiday insane Pilchard oil is a body but squish the fish gotta swish the fish hold em in and pack them in the tin Swish the fish God swish the fish Pilch swish the fish Gotta swish the fish hold them in and pack them in a tin Swish the fish Gotta squish the fish.

Squish the fish.

You gotta squish the fish.

Okay, so we've all been some hot bums for a while.

Sorry, Neil.

Nearly had your beer away.

And so it's about time that you.

Got a bit of a stretch.

So there's actions to this.

Now, this is a storm.

That was written by a gentleman whose.

Name I can never remember, but Neil will remind me.

No, no.

So it was written by a very.

Memorable gentleman, but neither should remember.

Anyway, so there's a chorus.

And these.

These are your paws, right?

And in the chorus, you're going to.

Stick out your paws and pull on the oars.

And then you're going to run and.

Tell your mother that there's never been another.

All right?

Pause.

Oars.

Run and tell your mother you'll pick it up.

And we expect everyone to be involved.

One old man come a rolling down the river O Jack Jones One old man come a rowing down the river O Jack Jones Put at your paws and put on the oars for O Jack Jones Run and tell your mother that there'll never be another like old Jack Jones Old Jack Jones his knickers made of flannel Old Jack Jones oh, when he was a nipper Rode a saucepan crossed the channel O Jack Jones Put out your paws and pull on the oars for O oh, Jack Jones for run and tell your mother that there'll never be another like O Jack Jones O Jack Jones Torpedoed by the navy O Jack Jones Patched up the holes with his granny's lumpy gravy O Jack Jones Pull out your paws and pull on the oars for O Jack Jones O Jack Jones with honor and devotion O Jack Jones Took two days a crossing over ocean O Jack Jones Pull out your paws and pull on the oars for for old Jack Jones Run and tell your mother that there'll never be another like old Jack Jones Old Jack Jones he took a lip of whiskey Old Jack Jones Spat on.

His hands Rode across the Bay of.

Biscay Old Jack Jones Put at your poles and pull on the O's for O oh, Jack Jones Run and tell your mother that there'll never be another life O Jack Jones One old man he come a rowing up the seven Old j.

One of these days he'll be rowing.

Up to heaven Jones Pull out your PA and pull on the O For old Jack Jones Run and tell your mother that there'll never be another like old Jack Jones so pull out your balls and pull on the old school Put out your paws and pull on the oath for old Jack Jones Run and tell your mother that there'll never be another like old Jack Jones Run and tell your mother that there'll never be another like O Jack Jones Ancient.

Boost Quizzes it was on the Sunday.

Morning and the day we count on fine to the harbour Grace Excursion with the boys for a time and just as the sailor took the gangway from.

The pier I saw some down a.

Hole My wife aboard as a volunteer only or my I heard the me or my I think I'm going to die for me am I.

Wish I.

Never taken this decision a full 300 souls aboard and what a splendid sight or dressed in red German to keep our spirits bright Myself been at the.

Double with the funny things they say.

The choke is el enough Missy is in the bay oh me oh my I be all my cry oh me oh my I think I'm gonna die oh me oh my say I wish I never taken this excursion around the bay Me wife she got no better she turned the sickly green A feather cake and candy fat pork and kerosene Castor oil and sugar candy rupee roll.

On her face face I told her.

She'Ll be dandy when we reach his harbor Grace oh me oh my I heard me over cry oh me am I I think I'm going to die oh me oh my I heard me always say I wish I never taken this decision around the B Me wife she got no better Me wife me.

Darling dear the screeches from a trolley.

You could hear in carbon ear Tried every place in harbour Grace Tried every.

Store and shop to find her something for a cure or take her to.

The hop oh me oh my I heard the overcrowd oh me oh my I think I'm gonna die oh me oh my I heard the old.

She.

Died below the brandies as we were carrying back Prepared her in the ocean wrapped up in a Union Jack and now I'm a single man Looking out.

For a pretty face to the woman.

That says she'll have me I'm off the harbour Grace oh me oh I hurt me all my cry oh me am I I think I'm gonna die only am I hurt me on my say I wish I'd never taken this description around the day oh oh me oh my I heard me oh my oh me oh my I think I'm going to die oh me oh my I heard Me all my.

I wish I never taken this decision.

Around the bay hey.

Right.

So, last one from us this evening.

Oh, I won't go sailing anymore I won't obey the ocean's call I'm staying right here I'll be a man of the trees I'll be a man wherever my woman will be I won't be any catches made I won't be servant.

Of seas this pretty little woman is.

Who I at 14 I was cabin boys up here Some cats in Buckle Roy staying right here When I was sick he ordered California felt fine I'm staying right here I'll be a man of man I'll be a man of dreams at 20 in the old cross nest the captain said I was best I'm staying right here.

Well, I nearly lost my eyes to God Just looking out for old Cape Town Staying right here I'll be a.

Man of land I'll be a man.

Of cheeks I'll be a man wherever my woman will be I won't be any hurt I won't be servants of seas.

Cause it's Pretty little.

At 25 no man alive could match my skills for gunning I'm staying right here.

Then our captain he got drunk one night and sank Blasted cannon.

I'm staying right here I'll be a man of the land I'll be a man of trees I'll be a man wherever mile of the many well, Captain died at 28 and by then I was his first mate.

I'm staying right here I'm staying right here I'll be a man of man I'll be a man of jes.

I'll be a man wherever my woman.

Will be I.

Need well step to show in Phoenix Though I'm made for Bristol Road I'm staying right here.

Oh, I fell in love when first I saw I'll be a man of trees I'll be a man Wherever my woman will be I will be.

Saying.

Heavenly little woman is all I need I cannot get to my heart if I were deep the water of time runs between her and me and here I must stand With a tear in my both sighing and sickly My sweetheart.

To see.

O where is the boatman My bonny hinny.

O where is the boatman?

Bring him to me to ferry me all the time to my honey and I will remember the boatman and me O bring me a boatman I'll give any money I know you for your trouble Rewarded shall be to ferry me all the time to my honey O Scar across that rough river to me I cannot get to my love if I would eat the water of time runs between her and me and here I must stand With a tear in my he Both sighing and sickly my sweet to see oh, sighing and sickly my sweetheart to see.

Thank you very much, everybody, and thank.

You all for coming to our local and supporting it.

And especially thanks to Paula for doing.

All the work as well.

This is brilliant.

Because there has been quite a variety of songs.

There has been quite a variety of songs this evening.

There are.

There have been serious songs and there.

Have been less serious songs.

The young the Wurzels tended to err.

On the less serious side.

I'm not a wurzel.

Please join in in your best Wurzel accent.

Sheds of the line they look so.

Fine all right with flags and bunting.

But we display the rust and grey like trucks they use for shutting another.

Craft Both born at fly flags of.

Many nations but at our mast flies proud and fast let's Christmas decorations when.

They change go bang and the buck is clang There is no vessel finer From Bristol tops to the mumbles rocks bad as an ocean liner oh, let the fine harlot till the land and the Clark stick to his ledger with a yo ho ho from the crew below I'm the captain of the treasure.

We may not be the queen's navy to scour the mighty ocean we stay instead ran for his head and drinks the local potion and once ashore our ship counts more than any battle Cruiser and it 10 passed to our gallant.

Crew Step smartly down the boozer when these chains go bang and the buckets clang There is no vessel fighter From Bristol docks to the Mumbles rocks brown as an ocean liner oh, let the farmer till the land and the club stick to his ledger With a yo ho ho from the crew below I'm the captain of the treasure There is many a tale of ships that sail in search of pirates, treasure.

And film.

Stars yachts of 20 knots that tour the world for pleasure who I say.

What joy so rare could e'er compare.

Or thrill thee to the final as.

When we budged that Avon sludge and corridor the channel when these trains go bang and the bucket is clanged There is no vessel finder From Bristol docks to the mumbles rocks Frown as an ocean liner oh, let the farmer till the land and grasp it to his ledger with a yo ho ho from the crew below I'm a captain of the treasure the yarns they spin o A rum and j jealous Boasters they're lobbing swabs them does our jobs for.

Tanker men and coasters but the Avon mud is in our blood and when.

We dump the sled, sir we set our cart to the old black art Till it all bobs up against her when they chains go bang and the buck is flanged There is no vessel finer from crystal dogs to the monkey's rocks Bound as an ocean liner or let the farmer till the land and gladstick to his ledger With a yo ho ho from the crew below I'm the captain of the treasure Austere because.

This is the lowest mic.

Lots of songs we sing almost about six ships that are sunk ships.

I do most of them in our group and I've become known as Uncle Albert.

So I need to work on the white beard.

This one's about a very famous ship that sat over 100 years ago.

The ship is called God Moves On Water and recognizes the feats of great bravery that took place on that night in 1912.

April 14 day Titanic struck an iceberg all the people had to run and pray God moved goose on the water April 14th grade God moved more roofs on the water Everybody's gonna run and pray When Titanic left Southampton Everyone was home bold and brave oh, while that great ship was sinking I know their minds were changed God moved no moves on the water April 14 day God moved no moves on the water Everybody's gonna run and pray well, the the mothers told their daughters On a pleasure trip they'd go but when they struck that iceberg well, they ain't been seen no more God moves on the water April 14 day God moved on the water the water Everybody's gonna run and pray While a freight boat sent a wo in Captain Smith he would not heed no, he would not listen to his wireman Instead he run with the greatest speed God moves on the water April 14 day God moved more cruise on the water Everybody's gonna run and pray One man John Jacob Ashton I was a man so bold and brave all while that great ship was sinking all the wind in he's trying to save God moves on the water April 14 day God moves on the water Everybody's gonna run and pray well, he kissed his wife the last time the boiler did explode oh, he put on the lifeboat Saying I won't see you no more God moves on the water April 14 day God moves on the water Everybody's gonna run and pray well, the 14th day of 18 April 1912 oh, a thousand and six hundred went down Forever to dwell God moved the wounds on the water April 14 day God moves on the water Everybody jumped run and pray God moves on the water April 14 day God moves on the water Everybody's gonna run and pray Run and pr.

Right, the next one kind of lines up with the background to this region in terms of Frampton cultural and mining.

That's enough.

He wasn't a miner.

Myers.

Life is like a sailor's.

Board a ship across the waves Every day his life's in danger still he ventures being brave Watch the rocks, they're falling daily Careless miners always fail Keep your hand upon your wages and your eye upon the scale Union minus Stand together, do not leave the owner's tale Keep your hands upon your wages and your eye upon.

You've been docked and docked again boys You've been loading 3 for 1 what.

Have you to show for working now your mining day begun Worn out shoes and worn out miners Blackened lungs and.

Faces pale Keep your hand upon your wages and your eye upon the scale Union minus Stand together do not he the owner's tale Keep your hand upon your wages and your eye upon.

Though they sold us down the river Brought us up and closed us down through the shadows of this wasteland Stirs a voice they cannot drown it's the echo of our fathers roaring like a roaring gale Keep your hand upon your wages and your eye upon the scale Union miners, stand together do not heave the owner's tail Keep your hand upon your wager and your eye upon the scale in conclusion bearing memory Keep this password in your mind Worked strength cannot be broken when in union they divine Stand like men and link together Victory for you prevail Keep your hand upon your wages and your eye upon the scale Union miners, stand together, do not heed the owner's tail Keep your hand upon your wages and your eye upon the scale Union miners, stand together, do not heed the owner's tale Keep your hand upon your wages and your eye upon the scale.

Thank you.

We.

We sang at a.

At a gig up in the Cotswolds and got the distinct impression they were.

On the side of the owners.

It's nice to be with friends again.

Right, Lightning.

The note a little bit apart from the last one.

Most of the stuff we try and sing has got water in it.

Not necessarily alcohol in it, but definitely water in it.

So this particular one is actually about canal boats.

So hands up anybody that's been on a canal boat already.

Wait, you'll get the gist of it.

We are to hoozy boaters cruising England's waterways.

Sailing 50 foot of narrowboat through an alcoholic haze.

With the tiller swinging wildly from bank to bank we fear.

And we'll take a chunk from every bridge just like we did last year.

And we'll take a chunk from every bridge Just like we did last year.

We are two boozy boaters.

Along the cut we glide.

We never pass a public house.

We always go inside to choose between the pedigree black sheep or bombardier.

No problem, we will sing the ball just like we did last year.

No problem, we will sink them all Just like we did last year.

We are two boozy boaters.

Jolly Rogers flag we fly.

Aha.

Of our Sioux scurvy rats we shout at passersby.

We drink the rum quite freely.

Canal based buccaneers.

Now we're feeling sick as pirates just like we did last year.

Now we're feeling sick as pirates Just like we did last year.

We are two boozy boaters who moored far from the bank.

And just like naughty sailors we had to walk the plank.

But when we returned from the pub.

We forgot the plank was there.

And we fell into a muddy mire just like we did last year.

And we fell into a muddy mire just.

Just like we did last year.

We are too boozy boaters.

Always mind in p's and Q's with impeccable behavior.

Until we've had some boos.

Then we're loud and couth and vulgar.

You'll just wish we'd disappear.

And we'll set off with our ropes till tied.

Just like we did last year.

And we'll set off with our ropes till tied.

Just like.

Just like we did last year.

We are too busy boaters.

Our holiday's near done.

We'll have to turn the boat around now that'll cause some fun.

We could just call the boatyard.

After all they are so near.

We've not Traveled more than 50 yards just like we did last year.

We've not traveled more than 50 yards.

Just like what we did last year.

All right.

Can I come there?

Thank you.

Right.

This is a song about sugar.

Sorry.

Keep going.

All right?

Yeah.

Have I got a click in here.

Anthony?

Oh, I've got.

Yeah, I can click.

Yeah.

Still working.

Right.

Oh, I wish I was in Mobile Bay screwing cotton all of the day.

Balance the wind.

Sugar in the hole below below, below, below, below, below, below.

Stowing sugar in the hole below.

Stowing sugar in the hole below.

The JM White is a brand new boat stem to stem.

She's mighty fine Feed any boat on a New Orleans line Snow and sugar in the hole below hey ho Below, below Spilling sugar in the hole below hey Hole below, below Spilling sugary in the hole below Engineer shouts through his home Tell the mate we got bad news can't get the steam from the fire in the flue Stowing sugar in the hole below below, below, below Stowing sugar in the hole below Storing sugar in the hole below Captain stands on the quarter deck Scratching way at his own neck and he shouts heave out the lava bed Stowing sugar in a hole below B O B hey hole Sugar in the hole below Storing sugar in the hole below In a Holy love Below, below, below, below B A ho Below, below Storing sugar in the hole below Hey O Below Stowing sugar in the hole below Stowing sugar in the.

In the hope.

How we doing?

We've probably only got time for one more, haven't we?

But there is time for a shameless plug.

So the frantic cultural mayor was quiet is 100 years old this year.

Mel is the only surviving founder member.

Just a further away from this here.

And to celebrate we're having a massive centenary concert at the end of April.

The poster there.

Do come and join us.

If you like singing, come and join us.

If you've not liked this, don't worry.

Male voice is different Come anyway.

We've got time for one more.

What should we do?

Stillness of the deep the twilight slowly darkens o'er us and lulls the weary world to see and loves the weary world to see Calm is the sea the tide that bouncing upon the stranding Silence steals the silence fills the and list and moves the fisher kills and lifts and moves the fisher keels Come is the sea the lights of heaven are shining on his quiet breast O trouble comes the love of eternal looks down on thee Looks down on the.

All right then, as long as you.

Join in mandatory Very well.

Princess Landing with mercy for the world For I'm bound for California it's the place that you know right well so far Thee well My own true love when I return United we will be we will.

It's not the Leing of Liverpool that GR me But my darling when I think of thee I unbound for California My way up the stormy Cape Horn and I will write you a letter My love when I am homeward bound so fairly well My own true love when I return United we will be we will be.

It's not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me but my darling when I think I have shipped on A Yankee clipper ship.

David Crockett is her name and her captain's name.

It is Virgious and they say she's a not in shame.

So far thee well I always When I return United we will be.

Wait, wait, wait.

It's not the leaving of Liverpool that greets me but my darling when I think of thee it's me second time with Burgess in the Crocket and I reckon I know him well if a man is a sailor he'll get along and if not then you're sure in hell so far thee well my own true love When I return United we will be it's not the leaving of little pool that greets me but my daughter Darling, when I think of thee now the sun shines on the harbor wall I wish I could remain For I know it's gonna be a long long time Before I so far thee well my own true love When I return United we will be it's not the leaving of Liverpool that grieves me but my darling when I think of thee so far thee well my own When I return United we will be we will be it's not the leaving of Liverpool that cre me but my darling when I.

Well, I would like to call anyone that is still around from the Gazette.

If you all want to join on stage and just sing something together.

I don't know.

The intention would be that each one of us would sing the song, but Michael has been reduced to two.

And if everybody try and want to be fine.

We can just carry on partying on our road.

So if you want to join us in.

Yeah, we can see a couple more so songs.

I thought I heard young Pa say that break up day we're up about.

For Briscoe Bay.

We'Re outward bound around.

Cape.

When we get to Frisco Bay.

John Kanaka 2 We'll pail off ship and drone.

Just one more verse and.

Then withdrew John Cadakadaka 2 we're in the corner of Bristol shanty crew John Kadakadaka 2 rock oh, a drop one else's blood wouldn't do us any harm oh, a drop one else's blood wouldn't do us any harm and it all hang on behind Come on and rodeo chariot.

Well, a nice fat cook wouldn't.

Do us any harm oh, a nice fat cook wouldn't do us any harm oh, a nice fat cook wouldn't do us any harm and we'll all hang on behind and we'll roll your carry us along we'll roll your carry us along we'll roll and we'll all hang on behind oh, a pint from Polar Chariot along we're all Chariot along and we'll all hang on behind Just one more pasty wouldn't do us anyhow Just one more pasty wouldn't do us anyhow One more past he wouldn't do us anyhow and we'll all hang on behind and we'll roll the arms Chariot alone we'll roll Chariot alone we'll roll chariot and we'll all hang on behind well, a night out with the girls wouldn't do us any harm well, a night out with the girls Wouldn't do us any harm and we'll all hang on baby behind and we will roll Carry it along we'll roll it all Chariot along we'll roll Carry it along and we'll all hang on behind Come on and roll it all Chariot along we'll roll Chariot along we'll rol.

Come fill.

Up your glasses and let us be merry for to rob and to plunder it is our intent as we roll through the valley where the lilies and the roses and the beauty of Kashmir drooping is away and away.

To those.

Caves in yonder mountain where the robbers retreat Honk, honk In the distance there's footsteps approaching Stand, stand and deliver it is a wash cry as we roam through the valley where the lilies and the roses and the beauty of Ashville lay drooping is fair then way away Then away then away.

Two.

In yonder mountains where the robbers trees we fill up our pockets with gold and rituals and we make for the forest with a hand in full grow as we roam through the valley where the lilies and the roses and the beauty of cashmere lay drooping its head Then away then away Then away to those caves in yonder mountain where the robbery See.

How.

In a sun's evening glow on June hill at blue as they spun.

Around and heard a man singing as.

If no one and no one will ever to me from this land until the Lord calls me to sit at his hand for this is my leader and I know for this is my Cornwall and this is my home I left childish footsteps on soft amazingly answered I stood on the great star in western gloom and heard the waves thunder on the rocks down below and no one will ever move me from this land until the Lord calls me to sit at his hand for this is my eagle and I'm not alone for this is my call and this is my home first thing in the Morning on chapel Conrail in the blue far away for this is my Cornwall and I'll tell you why Because I was born here and there I shall die and no one will ever move me from this land until the Lord calls me to sit at his hand for this is my leader and I know for this is my Cornwall and this is my home for this is my Cornwall and this is my home.

Thank you very much everybody.

Good night.

See you next year.

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