A Collection of Sea Shanties (vocal only)

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  • A collection of shanties with no instruments.
    There are far too many videos with cheesy and otherwise childish sea shanties, so I compiled some real shanties that only have vocals.
    Track List
    0:00 - David Coffin - Roll the Old Chariot
    2:32 - The Dreadnoughts - Sally Brown
    4:08 - Jerry Bryant and Starboard Mess - Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate
    7:21 - The Dreadnoughts - Eliza Lee
    9:19 - Johnny Collins - Leave Her Johnny
    14:28 - The Revels - Rolling Down to Old Maui
    16:49 - The Dreadnoughts - Randy Dandy-Oh
    18:48 - Stan Rogers - Barrett's Privateers
    23:09 - Shanty Crew - Where Am I To Go M'Johnnies
    25:16 - Johnny Collins - Old Billy Riley
    26:55 - The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - Paddy Doyle's Boots
    28:17 - Johnny Collins - South Australia
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  • @alfonzo9389
    @alfonzo9389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16400

    I'm quiting my day job and starting a pirate crew. Who's with me??!!

    • @armansyed5003
      @armansyed5003 4 ปีที่แล้ว +548

      AHOY

    • @lacidar3178
      @lacidar3178 4 ปีที่แล้ว +445

      AYE!!

    • @brendankirkham1405
      @brendankirkham1405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +427

      I'm with you captain

    • @adamromero
      @adamromero 3 ปีที่แล้ว +337

      Aye Aye Captain, avast ye, landlubbers!!

    • @lesjr3732
      @lesjr3732 3 ปีที่แล้ว +183

      Aye! Matie ye got me already enlisted

  • @RedSkies68V
    @RedSkies68V 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19604

    This is real music, I was born in the wrong generation. My dream is to be born into poverty, grow up to 23 and die of scurvy. The golden age

  • @shaungustafson6189
    @shaungustafson6189 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6139

    Only true 1700's kids will understand what it was like growing up with this music

    • @hiveship1
      @hiveship1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      🤣

    • @rebelrevival6010
      @rebelrevival6010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +192

      Trick question. You didn't get to be a child back then. After Da' died of the consumption, you were the man o' the shack now lad.

    • @UrMom-qd3lk
      @UrMom-qd3lk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      So true no one will ever know the excitement I felt when the first one came out

    • @Pixel3572
      @Pixel3572 2 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      @@napoleonbonaparte4382 Actually you’re the one who doesn’t understand what he is saying there.

    • @napoleonbonaparte4382
      @napoleonbonaparte4382 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Pixel3572 well yes

  • @thebluefox6494
    @thebluefox6494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1225

    I was About 3/4ths of the through with Leave Her Johnny before I realized “her” wasn’t a lover but actually the ship and it made the last part of the song more emotional because these sailors would live, work, and relax all on the same ship for months and even years and probably would’ve developed some sort of bind with the ship. Leaving the ship behind must have been very emotional for many sailors.

    • @thedictationofallah
      @thedictationofallah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      Finally some young folks finding out what Leave her Johnny truly means, 'nd how muchst we love our ships

    • @hehe-zt2ye
      @hehe-zt2ye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Spoiler
      .
      .
      .
      .
      .
      .Like how the straw hats had to leave the going merry

    • @Theemischievoustwinz
      @Theemischievoustwinz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@hehe-zt2ye you should watch the leave her Johnny leave her going merry amv not gonna lie might have cried more than when I saw it in the actual anime and other amvs

    • @hehe-zt2ye
      @hehe-zt2ye 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Theemischievoustwinz damn man, that was sad... And yeah AMVs tend to have that effect

    • @wannabefriends9944
      @wannabefriends9944 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@hehe-zt2ye spoiler :(

  • @CharlieSpencers
    @CharlieSpencers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3621

    I love all this music and I'm only 292 years-old. All of my friends say "y'arr, ye've got no taste, lad, why ain't ya listenin' t'any Baroque?", but I only listen to real music.

    • @karenburrows9184
      @karenburrows9184 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      James Humphrey: Ah, James; what do they know, whose heads are so easily turned by that upstart Mozart and the rest 'o those sissyboys. Away, away with fife and drum......

    • @atomicwalker2515
      @atomicwalker2515 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It's not possible to be 292 years old you'd be dead. Smh my head..

    • @peculiarpangolin4638
      @peculiarpangolin4638 4 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      @@atomicwalker2515 Why not? I'm 457, myself.

    • @Driver-Nephi
      @Driver-Nephi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@peculiarpangolin4638 my 407th birthday is in about a half year

    • @Driver-Nephi
      @Driver-Nephi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@atomicwalker2515 no ship sherlock

  • @moist9303
    @moist9303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7461

    started ironically listening to sea shanties now i cant stop

    • @GY-bd9bo
      @GY-bd9bo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +427

      your mistake was doing it ironically. you should've done it unironically from the start

    • @tunichtgut8730
      @tunichtgut8730 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I'm with you!

    • @ussessexcv-9189
      @ussessexcv-9189 4 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      A lot of people do this what you have done and then they realize hey these are actually pretty good

    • @rorytheegg2295
      @rorytheegg2295 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Yes, it is the superior music

    • @starrikiru
      @starrikiru 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Same these are firw

  • @redlaserfox3988
    @redlaserfox3988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    My local Classic Rock Radio station for April fools day changed all programming to Sea Shanties and I loved every second of it

  • @patrickrpedrus747
    @patrickrpedrus747 3 ปีที่แล้ว +457

    The voices of regular people in unison is much more soothing than those Disney musicals lol

    • @TheFolkRevivalProject
      @TheFolkRevivalProject ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you know there are authentic recordings of sailors from the 1800s singing sea shanties?
      This video has 127 recordings of 37 shanties:
      th-cam.com/video/5E4hQdBwkk4/w-d-xo.html

    • @dosne975
      @dosne975 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Can’t agree more

    • @wordforger
      @wordforger ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Heh. Well that first song in Frozen managed to hit... but of course that's because they did the whole working song thing.

    • @bradleybrown8428
      @bradleybrown8428 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Personally I love both.

    • @Wil3vlbc9gvk604
      @Wil3vlbc9gvk604 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      there is a choir at epcot that sings traditional songs, and it was really special to see it up close.
      Im from brazil by the way.

  • @chaido
    @chaido 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9680

    Sea shanties have very recently become a trend; it is well fucking deserved and it's about damned time, mates.

    • @drduck5327
      @drduck5327 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Yes

    • @stevieg8100
      @stevieg8100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      *me mateys

    • @zio4590
      @zio4590 3 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Thanks to Assassins Creed

    • @andyb1653
      @andyb1653 3 ปีที่แล้ว +139

      I've been waiting since 1493 for this shit to come back

    • @TheStunnerFTW
      @TheStunnerFTW 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@zio4590 more like thanks to runescape. It all started with sea shanty, more specifically sea shanty 2.

  • @instantbeansoup
    @instantbeansoup 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6355

    POV: you finished cleaning the deck and the crew found the rum

    • @ella-nq5zt
      @ella-nq5zt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      But then you found out that jack sparrow drank the rest of the rum

    • @stevenfrost3469
      @stevenfrost3469 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      Most sea shantys are to keep the crew in rhythm so the job rhey were doing would get done efficiently. They would have to push, pull or heave in unison as the ship's sails were too heavy for one person.

    • @theladthattakescontent2650
      @theladthattakescontent2650 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      If it’s a POV then why am I in the ocean looking up at my friends singing and drinking away to the tune of my ultimate fate

    • @niepowaznyczlowiek
      @niepowaznyczlowiek 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@stevenfrost3469 just what i wanted to say. They sang when working

    • @jamiibear
      @jamiibear 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      YARR RUM WOOOOO

  • @ryrysmom2004
    @ryrysmom2004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    I’ve enjoyed sea shanties before they became a trend, and I’m glad they did become a trend because I’ve found more of them because of it.

    • @thedumbestgenius69
      @thedumbestgenius69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I hated the trend, if I hear "Wellerman" one more time...
      That being said the trend is the only way I discovered the longest johns, so I guess its even.

    • @ryrysmom2004
      @ryrysmom2004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@thedumbestgenius69 I do agree. When a sea shanty is played too much it becomes so annoying

    • @TheFolkRevivalProject
      @TheFolkRevivalProject ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you know there are authentic recordings of sailors from the 1800s singing sea shanties?
      This video has 127 recordings of 37 shanties:
      th-cam.com/video/5E4hQdBwkk4/w-d-xo.html

  • @willerwin3201
    @willerwin3201 2 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    What I love about these is that the natural rhythm of the songs were deliberately matched to specific tasks on ships, helping hands stay busy, coordinated, and focused on their work. *And dang, they work!* This came on as I was cleaning a giant pile of strawberries, and it amazed me how much faster I worked and got them done.

    • @jhoughjr1
      @jhoughjr1 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It's seriously an adaption we humans have. Another thing making us special

    • @kitsune9726
      @kitsune9726 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Not just sailors. Do a search for 'Outlander Wool Waulking Song' for women singing as they fuller wool cloth, making the weave tighter and setting the dye.

    • @HomeTreeLove
      @HomeTreeLove 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      And harvesting songs, when a line of people would havest the crops

    • @piratepete842
      @piratepete842 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      On the rail gangs too..lining the track

    • @GaryBall-vb2jk
      @GaryBall-vb2jk หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sounds like one of those men. Are up in the Crow's nest for too long . Too much swaying back and forth😂

  • @redpikmin6330
    @redpikmin6330 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9149

    Born too late to conquer the world
    Born too early to explore the galaxy
    Born just in time to enjoy some shanties

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones 4 ปีที่แล้ว +275

      Open this in one tab, and open a video of ocean sounds in another.

    • @lucasprange7104
      @lucasprange7104 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      You can still conquer your world

    • @nicklespale22
      @nicklespale22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@lucasprange7104 yyeaah your world's kinda small there..

    • @williamt.sherman9841
      @williamt.sherman9841 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      well if it makes you feel better no one is ever going to explore the galaxy.

    • @5ilent5hift
      @5ilent5hift 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@oz_jones Just gonna leave this one here, they go together well th-cam.com/video/cgAl76Y9Tcs/w-d-xo.html

  • @fuzzytheduck6821
    @fuzzytheduck6821 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5396

    This gives me nostalgia for something I never had

    • @CoolGuyFrank713
      @CoolGuyFrank713 4 ปีที่แล้ว +371

      Well, unlike you, I was actually born in the 1700s so I get that nostalgic feeling for a reason

    • @MrSomebodyyy
      @MrSomebodyyy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +164

      Hey maybe you were a sailor in another life. Who knows.

    • @naherathe
      @naherathe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Yarr thou blood have sailorrs rots too i see

    • @morgandall7503
      @morgandall7503 3 ปีที่แล้ว +176

      Hiraeth (Welsh pronunciation: [hɪraɨ̯θ, hiːrai̯θ]) is a Welsh word for homesickness or nostalgia for a home that no longer exists or never was, an earnest longing or desire, or a sense of regret or a home you never knew.
      Anemoia: nostalgia for a time you've never known.
      These shanties make me feel both of these.

    • @kommandantbaker
      @kommandantbaker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      I'm from Nova Scotia so sea shanties and nautical themed folk tunes are my childhood.

  • @CapitanAP
    @CapitanAP 3 ปีที่แล้ว +489

    0:00​ - David Coffin - Roll the Old Chariot
    2:32​ - The Dreadnoughts - Sally Brown
    4:08​ - Jerry Bryant and Starboard Mess - Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate
    7:21​ - The Dreadnoughts - Eliza Lee
    9:19​ - Johnny Collins - Leave Her Johnny
    14:28​ - The Revels - Rolling Down to Old Maui
    16:49​ - The Dreadnoughts - Randy Dandy-Oh
    18:48​ - Stan Rogers - Barrett's Privateers
    23:09​ - Shanty Crew - Where Am I To Go M'Johnnies
    25:16​ - Johnny Collins - Old Billy Riley
    26:55​ - The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - Paddy Doyle's Boots
    28:17​ - Johnny Collins - South Australia

  • @diontan829
    @diontan829 2 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    I'm not even remotely European but it feels like I've been sailing with the boys for years now

    • @sid2112
      @sid2112 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Plenty of your folk sailin' the seas back then me lad! All shipmates! faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe

    • @seronymus
      @seronymus ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maybe you have a white ancestor that got lost centuries ago and mixed in your family.

  • @utubefiller673
    @utubefiller673 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20392

    like if ur a 1700s kid this is real music

    • @jlongo4258
      @jlongo4258 8 ปีที่แล้ว +265

      tfw 1701 was 315 years ago

    • @ryanmulherin2682
      @ryanmulherin2682 8 ปีที่แล้ว +202

      1680s.

    • @shrekdank3473
      @shrekdank3473 7 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      1822 kid

    • @linusglenhaber8006
      @linusglenhaber8006 7 ปีที่แล้ว +208

      1776's kid
      How I wish I was in sherbrook now
      I agree this is real music
      God damn them all, I was told we'd cruise the sea for American gold

    • @jayn8392
      @jayn8392 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Utube Filler I 'member!

  • @aprcuulestdude9076
    @aprcuulestdude9076 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6831

    Her: He’s probably with other girls right now
    Me and the boys:

    • @xiphosmaniac
      @xiphosmaniac 4 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      lol i was playing sea of thieves with my friend, and we were singing shanties from black flag, and sure enough his significant other was questioning why he hasnt said anything to her for hours, and it was literally cuz we were sailing and singing and pirating lmao. sorry, your comment gave me a good laugh.

    • @speednhazerecords5570
      @speednhazerecords5570 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      😂😂😂

    • @SanarySeggnete
      @SanarySeggnete 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      with the finest girl in the world : a 38 gates Frigate

    • @astoroidea6502
      @astoroidea6502 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      It’s true, they’re with the finest woman is the world, the sea

    • @christianleitel7906
      @christianleitel7906 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Leave her Johnny, O' leave her Johnny!

  • @janethumes4234
    @janethumes4234 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I am with you. I gave my father a whaling ship music funeral. I shocked every relative, which was very gratifying.

  • @TheEmeraldMenOfficial
    @TheEmeraldMenOfficial ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Aw heck yeah, Stan Rogers got internationally noticed! Thank you for your service to to world, more people deserve to hear his work!

  • @igooog
    @igooog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4060

    Humanity has yet to come up with a more chill-yet-energetic genre. I can't stop.

    • @araedav
      @araedav 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      That’s a flawless explanation of this mood

    • @sigspearthumb2313
      @sigspearthumb2313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      The vibe is just built different.

    • @ChrisSandtSmith
      @ChrisSandtSmith 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Dubstep?

    • @TheMikestaaaaa
      @TheMikestaaaaa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@ChrisSandtSmith I refuse to call that chill

    • @connerbeard2364
      @connerbeard2364 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Something I find chill is slow jazz trumpet solos

  • @c1000101c
    @c1000101c 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3585

    I'm only 98 years old but I love this music.

    • @trentonbarton809
      @trentonbarton809 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      c1000101c really?

    • @MikhaelAhava
      @MikhaelAhava 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      c1000101c that’s cool sir.

    • @user-eg6qr3zr6z
      @user-eg6qr3zr6z 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      All good wishes to you. I hope you'll become a hundred twenty years - at least. At best health

    • @darbi761
      @darbi761 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Are you 99 or 100 now? If so happylate birthday :)

    • @swootypie5253
      @swootypie5253 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Kawalski, analysis

  • @aaronoliver9075
    @aaronoliver9075 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I found this video in 2019 just before moving away from home to go to uni. 4 years later I'm still obsessed and I've joined a shanty choir

  • @lesleystocks5318
    @lesleystocks5318 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    My dad was in the navy & we used to sing what shall we do with a drunken sailor everytime we were in the car together .. I was 6 at the time.. I’m 39 now & remember these songs .. he lived till he was 90 x

  • @yurachunt3179
    @yurachunt3179 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2925

    I love that the singers aren't exceptionally good; they're _just_ normal enough for it to sound as intended
    edit: i made this comment when i'd only heard a few minutes of the whole thing. many of them are trying too hard

    • @novastar3990
      @novastar3990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      I like that

    • @empty_sea8274
      @empty_sea8274 3 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      Go to a Renaissance faire. Some guilds (like mine) specialize in singing shanties and we sound like this.

    • @yurachunt3179
      @yurachunt3179 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      @@empty_sea8274 when quarantine's over, I very well may

    • @whitegluestick6039
      @whitegluestick6039 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      @Logan Porter yeh I doubt that 23 yo vegetable deprived alcoholic sailor was a good singer

    • @davecrupel2817
      @davecrupel2817 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      That's the beauty of a crowd singing.
      The imperfections in each voice is blended together, into *perfection!*

  • @somerandomname3124
    @somerandomname3124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5209

    >You were born too early to sing space shanties
    >You were born too late to sing seas shanties
    >You were born just in time to do nothing but stay put at home doing nothing but sit at home and listen to 30 minutes worth of sea shanties

    • @rebekahliimatta7787
      @rebekahliimatta7787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +250

      It's never too late to sing sea shanties.

    • @joelail6741
      @joelail6741 3 ปีที่แล้ว +164

      "Yes, I am a pirate, born 400 years too late. " ~ Jimmy Buffett

    • @EmberBright2077
      @EmberBright2077 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      I don't know about that, I can sing sea shanties whenever I want.

    • @mrkrabs5039
      @mrkrabs5039 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      current mood: sad space shanties don't exist yet

    • @thehammer4607
      @thehammer4607 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@mrkrabs5039 but my friend, some enterprising souls have already made some, check out Leslie fish and Julia Ecker

  • @nadineedol826
    @nadineedol826 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Writing a novel with pirates involved! Thank you for this omg. I can feel it that this novel is gonna be soooooo good.

  • @j.s.connolly8579
    @j.s.connolly8579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I LOVE IT! "Barrett's Privateers" and "Patty Doyle's Boots"! SHEESH! I thought I was the ONLY ONE that STILL KNEW MOST of these songs!
    I grew UP with a Grandfather FROM IRELAND and Learned MOST OF THESE from him! Except that HIS idea of singing was two notes... "UP and DOWN"! LOL
    But he SURE LOVED to Growl out tunes! GODS I MISS HIM SO MUCH!
    HERE'S TO YOU MY NAME SAKE!
    Shláinte!

    • @treycarlisle7189
      @treycarlisle7189 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Awesome, I'm half Irish and half German and I have no tradition that was taught to me because ot was forgotten throughout the generations. Wish my grandad or great grandad would've taught me a shanty or two

    • @RJBoyceEsq
      @RJBoyceEsq 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha, if you come to Atlantic Canada, Barrett's Privateers is extremely well known. You'll be hard pressed to find an adult that doesn't at least know the chorus, to the point where we joke about us reflexively shouting back how we wish we were in Sherbrooke now when someone says "Oh, the year was 1778"

  • @vitalissimus
    @vitalissimus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2335

    I'm Russian medical doctor who had the honour and a pleasure to circumnavigate the globe aboard the British cargo vessel under the Red Ensign as an ordinary seaman. That was a happiest half a year of my life. My Dad was Captain, God rest his soul. He would feel happy hearing these songs. So now do I. Thanks so much to the guys who've done it!

    • @jimfriedman6923
      @jimfriedman6923 6 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      Виталий Шматалюк The wind in your hair, and scent of salt in your nose is your father calling you home. To the sea, to the sea. Near his spirit be. To the sea, to the sea. Heart and home be.

    • @user-qx4fe5tm5q
      @user-qx4fe5tm5q 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Эти песни морем пахнут.

    • @kelvinmeneely3116
      @kelvinmeneely3116 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      That's a moving tale my northern friend, sailors all.,.. wind an salt ,fear...and the bravest men any man ever met.

    • @jamesoneill3922
      @jamesoneill3922 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      God bless your father

    • @sarahawkins1208
      @sarahawkins1208 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Heard of Joseph Conrad?

  • @lullabychannel5400
    @lullabychannel5400 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3437

    Me:"andeth me ye olde aux cord"
    Friend:"aye, but playeth not rubbish"
    Me;

    • @lukasbergmills4202
      @lukasbergmills4202 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

      throw all the other comments away this is the one

    • @hat7475
      @hat7475 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      *handeth but gold comment anyways

    • @josephstalin1561
      @josephstalin1561 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      elanit_lk Or ‘andeth

    • @vvill-ga
      @vvill-ga 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      69th like is for Sally Brown

    • @AJ-xc4nm
      @AJ-xc4nm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yup this is it. The winning comment.

  • @jackiejaskula6851
    @jackiejaskula6851 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is just effing awesome! My Dad taught us to sail on Lake Michigan starting when I was in 4th grade. My kids grew up sailing. My daughter was only 7 months old the first time she sailed. Now my son has his own sailboat. He IS a pirate. Wears a tricorn and flies the skull and cross bones. So anyway….he plays sea shanties and he, his girlfriend, his friends and I all sing. So much fun to sing!

  • @cnodgo
    @cnodgo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    While listening to this, i felt a sense of community because of the crowd singing as well as excitement probably because of the adventures/stories told through the shanties. Thanks for uploading this

  • @dynestis2875
    @dynestis2875 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7506

    Ok so who joins me in putting together a crew and building a vessel worthy of roaming the seas? Lets leave this silly modern society and just sail!

    • @smugglerscove6599
      @smugglerscove6599 7 ปีที่แล้ว +130

      Hop aboard the Tallship in Smuggler's Cove me lad!

    • @AnnaTheFallMaiden
      @AnnaTheFallMaiden 7 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      Aye! Count me in, cap!

    • @dynestis2875
      @dynestis2875 7 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Smuggler's Cove Aye aye Cap'n!

    • @JDurkin2811
      @JDurkin2811 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Dynestis ar me hearty

    • @stephanmast.8634
      @stephanmast.8634 7 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      count me in! Dutch do well on the waters!

  • @Trafoder
    @Trafoder 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3559

    There are 3 types of music:
    1) Sea Shanties
    2) Africa by Toto
    3) “Music”

    • @ididathink5295
      @ididathink5295 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      ooooooof

    • @firstname1152
      @firstname1152 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      & Irish Music 🍻

    • @firstname1152
      @firstname1152 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @Alonzo Lappin not all irish songs is about been at sea lots of Rebel songs & folklore and pub songs like The Dubliners- Rocky road to Dublin, The Chieftains etc

    • @firstname1152
      @firstname1152 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Alonzo Lappin ah right lol :)

    • @literallyasneeze2135
      @literallyasneeze2135 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      F

  • @caroleyre9144
    @caroleyre9144 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    My lovely Aunty lives on a Boat she’s mid 60’s and she’s a Trucker. She’s just gone part time Trucking though. Love this. 🥰🥰🥰

  • @bradthatguy69
    @bradthatguy69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Im Irish,Scottish,and Nordic...and live off these songs

    • @caroleyre9144
      @caroleyre9144 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am the same. Love ❤️

  • @spideyfist6841
    @spideyfist6841 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2487

    Not sure how I got here. But I know why I haven't left.

    • @enarswallow1533
      @enarswallow1533 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      same here

    • @awesometown1000
      @awesometown1000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Leave her, Johnny. Leave her...

    • @1D991
      @1D991 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I've always loved shanties, which is part of why Black Flag and Rogue became my favourite Assassin's Creed games. The music just puts a fire in my belly.

    • @geekymetalhead5112
      @geekymetalhead5112 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yarrr, we set sail

    • @viktoriaf.1191
      @viktoriaf.1191 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I’m in the same boat... get it hahaha

  • @hobo_billypsychedelic5469
    @hobo_billypsychedelic5469 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2744

    *modern pop music* ARRR NO GOOD.
    *1700's sea shanties* NYES THIS IS MUSIC

    • @JonathanToolonie
      @JonathanToolonie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Raise your grog mate! We'll party, pillage and raid like 1727!

    • @jormungandrworldserpent6437
      @jormungandrworldserpent6437 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      R/im14andthisisdeep

    • @thengutd
      @thengutd 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@jormungandrworldserpent6437 r/ihavereddit

    • @smakyakproductions4466
      @smakyakproductions4466 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Kitty Mittens r/foundthemobileuser

    • @beegpappa7900
      @beegpappa7900 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jormungandrworldserpent6437 roasted

  • @romainvicta3076
    @romainvicta3076 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    This is British Culture - Know where you come from and be proud of it lads

    • @TheGreenSupreme
      @TheGreenSupreme 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Goddam right

    • @xomvoid_akaluchiru_987
      @xomvoid_akaluchiru_987 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      At least one of these was an American folk song XD

    • @ryanjohnson3615
      @ryanjohnson3615 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      More American folk songs than you'd think are sung to old British tunes. "My Country Tis' of Thee" was pretty much our national anthem until the 1930's (enter the star spangled banner) and is identical to "God Save the Queen" The national anthem of Britain. @@xomvoid_akaluchiru_987

  • @Veezyjung
    @Veezyjung ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I keep coming back to this collection of sea shanties whenever I have a bottle of rum. Fantastic collection.

    • @MattDearing
      @MattDearing  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Appreciate that, my friend!

  • @walsh9080
    @walsh9080 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3249

    True story. I'm from Britain and was visiting friends in California just before the covid outbreak and we decided to go whale watching on a boat trip. The Pacific was quite rough that day so one of my friends asked me "Are you sure you're OK to do this? You've been drinking". I replied "mate, I'm British. Having a tipple onboard a ship is in my blood". This amused the elderly gentlemen behind us in the boarding line and I ended up spending time with them and teaching them Blow the Man Down. A few Chinese tourists recorded us, I think lmao. I was feeling nostalgic for travel and hope the old dudes are still OK that's how I got here.

    • @mewtwaila
      @mewtwaila 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Omygosh I love that so much 💕✨

    • @AONK
      @AONK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      man that story just warms my heart for some reason

    • @richardharpin1240
      @richardharpin1240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      epik story bro

    • @mirkoscuccato6444
      @mirkoscuccato6444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Now I started to care for that old man too.

    • @Godsfollower57
      @Godsfollower57 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @Jack BeattyGood thought, but more like this is the more innocent nature of man. When you get folks who have too much power, they get greedy and want more. Greed is close to being the #1 cause for wars and conflict.

  • @celuria4481
    @celuria4481 4 ปีที่แล้ว +958

    as i've heard it said, there's something that feels really heavy and deep in your chest, hearing that thing that humans have done for done for ages and will probably keep doing for ages. we've been sailing for thousands and thousands of years, before we wrote or built cities, and when we sailed, we sang. and when we sail through the stars, we'll probably still be singing as we soar. surrounded by the emptiness of the ocean with not a speck of land in sight, we belted out with our songs and stories, in defiance to the monotony of the wind and waves. it makes us human as much as fire or tools do

    • @karenburrows9184
      @karenburrows9184 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Celuria: Thank you, Celuria, thank you.

    • @this_is_ironic5659
      @this_is_ironic5659 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      This comment gave me goosebumps while listening to "leave her, Johnny"

    • @izzyt1626
      @izzyt1626 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I kinda wish that sailing didn't advance. You know except like GPS and the machines that tell the weather. But we still had wooden ships

    • @ryanotte6737
      @ryanotte6737 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Too right, and astronauts have already been singing in space, ever since Wally Schirra smuggled that harmonica onboard one of the Gemini missions orbiting Earth and up to Chris Hadfield playing his acoustic on the ISS.

    • @blackspring3207
      @blackspring3207 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They aren't going to sing in space. This age is soulless compared to the old.

  • @sophiea7
    @sophiea7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +370

    “Spend our money on Sally Brown” my bros just predicted OnlyFans

    • @stevehoward8953
      @stevehoward8953 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Best comment I've ever seen, well done good ma'am

    • @hmmmflyingturtle357
      @hmmmflyingturtle357 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lmao

    • @christianv-h3278
      @christianv-h3278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Sailors, pirates and privateers were the OG simps, change my mind

    • @anyguy6475
      @anyguy6475 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Nah, all those sailors actually got to handle Sally Brown which =so MUCH MORE than 'sight' alone.
      OnlyFans only exists for those get satisfaction from visual gratification, so, not even a getting a single bite of the real thing!

    • @prycenewberg3976
      @prycenewberg3976 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I mean... it's literally the oldest profession. Except that with OF, the customer doesn't even get the sex...

  • @kacythomas7436
    @kacythomas7436 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I didn't know they were sea shanties, 60 years ago, when I enjoyed listening to this kind of music on the radio. Thanks for sharing these, still enjoyable.

  • @Gardor
    @Gardor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2723

    First time: huh..
    Second time: I kinda like it
    Third time: Its actually pretty fucking good...
    Fourth time: Hell yeah..
    Fifth: "WE'LL ROOOOLL THE OLL'... CHARIOT ALONG... WE'LL ROOOOLL THE OL......"

    • @rejvaik00
      @rejvaik00 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      "WE'RE HOMEWARD BOUND FROM THE ARTIC ROUND'"
      "WITH A GOOD SHIP TAUT AND FREE...."

    • @shivanga13
      @shivanga13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Another festival won't do us any harm

    • @shivanga13
      @shivanga13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Another festival won't do us any harm

    • @joelail6741
      @joelail6741 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      That's no shit mate! I'm a middle , old timer, and I've been singing these in my head for decades. Glad to see they're creeping back , and I'll be damned if I care how they got here.

    • @100dead
      @100dead 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@oliviagrace6914 all due respects from another christian, but cussing is not a sin. cursing is, which biblically refers to cursing someone, not modern swears.

  • @randomcreations7522
    @randomcreations7522 3 ปีที่แล้ว +414

    These songs just give me a sense of belonging, like I'm surrounded by a bunch of sailors I've known for the longest time, it's a bitter sweet feeling that I can't quite explain. But in my heart, it's one of the best feelings you can have.

    • @aspiretobe7320
      @aspiretobe7320 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      There’s a word for that feeling but im not sure what it is

    • @417Owsy
      @417Owsy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Having the best time with your matey's? That's nothing but pure comradery, amity, unity, and chumminess

    • @fjvillas2722
      @fjvillas2722 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@aspiretobe7320 the word is anemoia

    • @aspiretobe7320
      @aspiretobe7320 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@fjvillas2722
      That’s what it is!
      Anemoia - “Nostalgia for a time you’ve never known”

    • @fjvillas2722
      @fjvillas2722 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@aspiretobe7320you're welcome

  • @samala1899
    @samala1899 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Imagine every day, as the spray stung your skin, but you loved it, the salty air, the creaking of the wood, you all broke into song, all colors, shapes, sizes, just as one voice raising the songs of the sea.

  • @sheenamariealvarado1200
    @sheenamariealvarado1200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Pure nostalgia, I got addicted to AC Pirates when I was a kid and I heared some of the sea shanties in here. I even remember vibing w/ it though I don't know the lyrics. Overwhelming.

  • @ZeusAndKiller
    @ZeusAndKiller 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3437

    Teacher: why didn't you go to the bathroom in-between classes?
    The bathroom in-between classes:

    • @KingJellyfishII
      @KingJellyfishII 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      th-cam.com/video/GgwOHnr3xVE/w-d-xo.html
      th-cam.com/video/ftItlr88ECo/w-d-xo.html

    • @thaeldir8923
      @thaeldir8923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +135

      I'd go to the bathroom to hear this

    • @carterp.5634
      @carterp.5634 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@thaeldir8923 I like your thinking.

    • @smurflord3339
      @smurflord3339 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      This is the dream bathroom

    • @KingJellyfishII
      @KingJellyfishII 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@tigerari5935 if you look closely, that's my second link :p

  • @miagionfriddo7758
    @miagionfriddo7758 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1045

    I opened this up as a joke and i'm actually enjoying it I-

    • @betht4476
      @betht4476 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      same. These songs are actual bops lmao

    • @ClassicalMusic2002
      @ClassicalMusic2002 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      That first one *SLAPS*

    • @thtnighag8022
      @thtnighag8022 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same

    • @devingilliam5601
      @devingilliam5601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@betht4476 David Coffin sings the first one. Sang it in a market during a music festival with a bunch of people. It's a cool video.

    • @vijaykadam3944
      @vijaykadam3944 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love this ❤💯

  • @tatertotgaming863
    @tatertotgaming863 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Time to imagine fake scenarios in my head and pace around my room moving random stuff

    • @mads9615
      @mads9615 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      THIS SKSKSJSJSJS

  • @BIGESTblade
    @BIGESTblade 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Loving how there's only one guy at most who knows how to sing and everyone else has the same scruffy voice like everyone else sings with.

    • @robertraymond623
      @robertraymond623 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The lead is the bosun. The others are the hands.

    • @TheFolkRevivalProject
      @TheFolkRevivalProject ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you know there are authentic recordings of sailors from the 1800s singing sea shanties?
      This video has 127 recordings of 37 shanties:
      th-cam.com/video/5E4hQdBwkk4/w-d-xo.html

  • @kainepainter9079
    @kainepainter9079 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1608

    Keep telling my friends we need to memorise some of these so when we're a little older and we start going down the pubs we can sing these while pissed off our heads lmao

    • @shitrigs6506
      @shitrigs6506 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Good lad 👊🏻

    • @dizzym9554
      @dizzym9554 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      "Leave Her Johnny" would be a good night closer when you're drunk as shit

    • @orctrihar
      @orctrihar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If it was like this, I will with pleasure drunk myself.

    • @merksad7910
      @merksad7910 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Just learn some songs, so when a random drunk guy starts singing we could sing along

    • @iainoam2565
      @iainoam2565 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dizzym9554 oh i love that one!!!

  • @davydabutcha7839
    @davydabutcha7839 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1166

    Sea shanties seem to be trending in 2021! AHOY MATIES!!!

  • @benjaminpilgrim1330
    @benjaminpilgrim1330 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    "Goddamn them all, I was told we'd cruise the seas for American Gold, We'd fire no guns, Shed no tears.." probably the most catchy line of the whole video.

    • @kathytolf8485
      @kathytolf8485 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Listen to Stan Rogers for more equally memorable lyrics. One of the greats in Canadian (Atlantic Provinces) traditional folk music.

    • @bkane573
      @bkane573 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Americans don’t give up the ship.
      Good luck getting that Gold.

    • @dymlingendyre6207
      @dymlingendyre6207 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bkane573 well it didn't go so well for him in the song, so yeah. God damn them all.

    • @lorrainegunn4111
      @lorrainegunn4111 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Stan Roger's singing his heart-felt rendition of "BARRETT'S PRIVATEERS" lovely.sound.

  • @AlexanderWernerJr
    @AlexanderWernerJr ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The performance of 'Rolling down to old Maui' at 14:29 is absolutely breathtaking and mesmerizing. My clear favourite of this lovely bunch.

  • @dutchvanderlinde3256
    @dutchvanderlinde3256 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3468

    Someone help me build a ship...

    • @Dxtrrr
      @Dxtrrr 8 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      Count me in, i can scrub a deck anytime. Just let me sail with you!

    • @user-hj7ir3oi5u
      @user-hj7ir3oi5u 8 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      all hands on deck the captain said

    • @waynejones205
      @waynejones205 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      If I may be yer Bo'sun!

    • @dutchvanderlinde3256
      @dutchvanderlinde3256 7 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      I'm not roll playing with you mister, but I am amassing a fortune in order to build a ship. If I fail you'll never know and I'll be forgotten, but should I succeed... God help us all.

    • @TankerDelight
      @TankerDelight 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I shall be your steersman, Boellee at yer service cap'n!

  • @Therika7
    @Therika7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1366

    2021 the year of the sea shanty makes total sense: nostalgia for teamwork and singing in a large group.

  • @bluesteelgaming2883
    @bluesteelgaming2883 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    The video may be vocal only, but there is still music. The lapping of the sea, the sloshing of the deckhands scrubbing, the creaking of the timbers, the pop of the sail as it fills with wind, these are the accompaniment.

  • @fox39forever
    @fox39forever 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm so glad sea-shanties are in fashion; I've always loved them! 😁🎵

  • @kingkkrusha05
    @kingkkrusha05 3 ปีที่แล้ว +872

    i’ve developed an unhealthy obsession for these

    • @kevinbobadilla4155
      @kevinbobadilla4155 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Facts and for me it all started with drunken sailor

    • @thalb4279
      @thalb4279 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      And apparently so has most of the rest of the English speaking internet. Those of us who have been here for a while welcome you.

    • @lotus20856
      @lotus20856 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah

    • @memerman9268
      @memerman9268 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@kevinbobadilla4155 what do we do with a drunken sailor

    • @kevinbobadilla4155
      @kevinbobadilla4155 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@memerman9268 shave his belly with a rusty razor

  • @user-dd5ei8wp5w
    @user-dd5ei8wp5w 3 ปีที่แล้ว +393

    “In a world without gold, we might have been heroes.”

    • @theokahi
      @theokahi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Black beard

    • @nathanz6265
      @nathanz6265 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      That line made me cry the first time I heard it.

    • @yousufrazwan9583
      @yousufrazwan9583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ah yes...

    • @epicaunleashed8764
      @epicaunleashed8764 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Time stamp

    • @yousufrazwan9583
      @yousufrazwan9583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@epicaunleashed8764 it was when edward thatch died

  • @rainorxhine
    @rainorxhine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    BYE i’ve memorized all of these songs and now they’re my comfort songs😔

  • @groudon6423
    @groudon6423 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Months ago I listened to this song the night before my dog was put down because of his skin cancer. Because of the black black spot on his eye that looked like an eyepatch he was named Jack Sparrow Callahan. I listened to this song to kind of respect and commemorate Jacks life. He was put down while I was at school the next day. I have a bitter/sweet relationship with this video.

  • @foxxywolf3809
    @foxxywolf3809 4 ปีที่แล้ว +676

    Leave her Johnny made me sad, must have been heart breaking to have to leave a ship that's taken care of you as much as you took care of it

    • @myopiniongoodyouropinionbad
      @myopiniongoodyouropinionbad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      I felt the same about an old car I had to sell.

    • @superguy6892
      @superguy6892 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's okay, they always build another one for the sequel!! If you're Kirk or Picard... (Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner could fit in with these dudes and love it though.)

    • @merlockmerlin1065
      @merlockmerlin1065 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      It's actually a metaphor for your home country and how you need to see past patriotism and just leave her. (Or something like that with Ireland)
      Not that you're wrong either, I just find it a neat tidbit that adds such depth to it

    • @alganhar1
      @alganhar1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@merlockmerlin1065 Not quite, it is literally about leaving the ship, after each voyage in the days of sail the ships crew was paid off with the exception of her permanent crew. Her permanent crew were usually specialists, and in the case of civilian vessels, the owner (though not always as many owners did not Captain their ships). So you are talking positions like the ships Carpenter, sailmaker, cooper, her Master (not the same as the owner or Captain), and in the case of warships her Master Gunner. Most of the other crew however would sign on for a single voyage, and even in navies the crew would be paid off after the ship reached home for a spell on shore, then be assigned to a new ship... EXCEPT those permanent crew.... On many ships her Captain and officers would come and go, her sailors also, but her Warrant Officers would only be replaced if they died or if the ship was decomissioned and broken up.
      Leave Her Johnny was an arrival Shanty, your ship has broght you home after a perilous voyage, you will be sad to leave her, but she brought you home, you are sad to leave her, as she was a good ship and brought you home, but you are home. Leave her Johnny, as there will be the next ship, and maybe she wil not be as kind.....

    • @merlockmerlin1065
      @merlockmerlin1065 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@alganhar1 actually it is : literally: about the Irish Potato Famine, and how they had to leave their home...ship and sail to America. The songs story is then (originally) sung in the context of Johnny reaching ashore in America, though being reluctant to leave his home.
      She can't support him. She's a sinking ship.
      And let's now hope for the American dream

  • @TiglathPileser3
    @TiglathPileser3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +462

    "Don't forget your old shipmate." Wow, this one hit home. Thirty-plus years, and I still remember you, my shipmate. Don't forget your old shipmate, Jack.

    • @user-ht4gb2fw4e
      @user-ht4gb2fw4e 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      What calibre is a (Johnson Gun)?? ..& what exactly is a Johnson Gun??

    • @user-ht4gb2fw4e
      @user-ht4gb2fw4e 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      ps: I'm former Army, I know nothing of Navy things. Except you come in when we need you! ..The Army thanks the Navy!

    • @drillsargentadog
      @drillsargentadog 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Times change; people don't.

    • @Ssssssnakeisone
      @Ssssssnakeisone 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why'd you kill me dog, Jack?

    • @Driver-Nephi
      @Driver-Nephi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Its been 340 fooking years jack, why didn't ya send a pigeon?

  • @nobody_potato6846
    @nobody_potato6846 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i grew up with these. my mom liked hip hop and my dad liked rap but they clicked on a sea shanty by accident and i loved it. now this is my life

  • @gabrielmerchant
    @gabrielmerchant 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Things to listen to when you're feeling nostalgic for your past life as a pirate

    • @space.404
      @space.404 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This 🤣

    • @leos8019
      @leos8019 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I literally listen to this as I play sea of thieves... 👌

    • @escapingbenzoozhopehelphea523
      @escapingbenzoozhopehelphea523 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Aye, me laddie, and ye're right - and wise beyond yer years. Argghh!

  • @uhhhisaiah
    @uhhhisaiah 3 ปีที่แล้ว +270

    manz is still hearting comments 6 years later. what a legend.

    • @mewtwaila
      @mewtwaila 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Trueeee

    • @edwardjtruskyjr1921
      @edwardjtruskyjr1921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Man it's sooooo good. Been a performance musician for 40 years and it's the most beautiful thing!

    • @druidae1492
      @druidae1492 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol. Well, as old as "Sea shanties" are, six years is a drop in the bail bucket.

  • @derekselden3950
    @derekselden3950 7 ปีที่แล้ว +968

    Real shanty singing. I recognise a few sung by the late Johnny Collins and I know I can hear myself in the accompaniment in some. My wife and I were heavily involved in shanty singing with Jimmy and John in the eighties.

    • @Vallgor
      @Vallgor 6 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Thank you for you and your wifes work

    • @anon4571
      @anon4571 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Dude that’s awesome

    • @staghastings
      @staghastings 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Derek Selden The Shanty Crew, lead vocalist on this track.is Room Kelly. We've sung together many times in the pub I used to run.
      We sang in front of over 15000 people on Hastings Pirate Day in 2011, when we smashed the world record for the most pirates in one place.

    • @NotaCapn
      @NotaCapn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Derek, I was fortunate enough to have sung with Johnny Collins at the Chicago Maritime Festival and at the Liereliet Festival in Workum in the Netherlands. He was a legend in the genre.

    • @johnoakes1842
      @johnoakes1842 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I regognize these from ac4 black flag........ Ahem, 29.03

  • @_kupo
    @_kupo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    R.I.P Stan Rogers, it's been 38 years since his death.

  • @Hsalf904
    @Hsalf904 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We sing Barrett’s Privateers all the time in Nova Scotia. Just got back from a lobster supper where they played it

  • @WooHooLadttv
    @WooHooLadttv 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5277

    sing with me boys
    we sail, forgo society, embrace the sea

    • @palty8126
      @palty8126 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      So thats why you sang that one shanty

    • @Melancholic_Fox
      @Melancholic_Fox 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      yo

    • @JumanjiAlan
      @JumanjiAlan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      I heard the work is hard and the wages low

    • @warmateo6261
      @warmateo6261 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      based and redpilled, supported based fact

    • @jrmetmoi
      @jrmetmoi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Jumanji Alan be a pirate and plunder and steal from others

  • @theinevitableshoelace3815
    @theinevitableshoelace3815 4 ปีที่แล้ว +540

    Song:
    Leave her johnny leave her, oh leave her johnny, leave her.
    Automated subtitles:
    Leave her jaw believer holy macho neelima.

    • @missilemike2361
      @missilemike2361 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Mine was saying slightly different stuff than this but same

    • @barbarag.5521
      @barbarag.5521 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      lololol
      Imagine what a laugh AI will be when confronted with a shanty.

    • @osa8845
      @osa8845 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Holy vajura liebe lol

    • @ScorpV1
      @ScorpV1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      All the voyage is done and the wings don't blow and it's time for us to leave ER

    • @thewanderer4564
      @thewanderer4564 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      XD

  • @druidae1492
    @druidae1492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very nice, Thank you very much. I love listening to this while out on my boat in the San Juan Islands of Washington State.

  • @jackalexande
    @jackalexande 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm not even listening to this ironically anymore, this honestly is just the soundtrack to my life

  • @balbinaarmstrongrodriguez4324
    @balbinaarmstrongrodriguez4324 3 ปีที่แล้ว +783

    I’ve just realized sea shanties make great music for doing homework

    • @borissamardzija9047
      @borissamardzija9047 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      if you listen to music while studying make sure that it has no words trust me it will only deconcentrate u

    • @chapliecharlin
      @chapliecharlin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      agreed
      works like a charm

    • @hiimryan2388
      @hiimryan2388 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@chapliecharlin and the charm is cursed.

    • @Toha555able
      @Toha555able 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      hehe I'm here due to meme saying the exact opposite

    • @makaellaleckie5794
      @makaellaleckie5794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That is what I sing and dance to every day and night

  • @yorkthirthebear4243
    @yorkthirthebear4243 5 ปีที่แล้ว +223

    I was raised in a small fishing town in England, lived there my entire life and I strongly believe I belong at sea. I tried for the Royal Navy and didn't quite make it, became a beachside lifeguard, now I am a Deck Officer Cadet for the Merchant Navy and when the going gets tough, I come back to listen to shanties, to encourage myself that it is where I belong. I close my eyes and just.. Await the future that is being a seafarer. I will make my way to the ocean however I can, no matter what.

    • @seanwoodcraft
      @seanwoodcraft 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Former Fleetwood cadet here...qualified couple of years ago.
      How you finding it?

    • @balansheppard3336
      @balansheppard3336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      26 years U.S. Navy. Started in life as a navy brat & my grandfather wa career Royal Navy, so I do understand.

    • @Sisyphus27
      @Sisyphus27 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      My mom also believes strongly that she had a life at sea. She has always had dreams of drowning at sea in a terrible storm. No one in our family has ever been in the Navy or associated with a life at sea. She actually ended up going to see a psychic when she lived in Santa Barbara, California. She had never seen this woman in her life. The woman looked at her hand and said "do you ever have dreams of drowning in the ocean?" My mom didn't want to tip her hand so to speak and just said "why?" The psychic replied "in the 17th or 18th century you were actually a man, in that past life, and were second in command aboard a sailing ship. Looks like it was British. There was a terrible storm, the ship was lost at sea. You went down with it." My mom told me she felt like the room started swirling, she was shaking. My mom then told the psychic "yes, I have dreams of drowning all the time." My mom still does. She has always wondered why she loves sea shanties so much and every room in our house has pictures/lithographs of old sailing ships. My mom told me that if our house ever burns down, we take the photo albums and all of the ship pictures. This story may sound crazy but it is true. She's listening to the sea shanties on this tape right now and is agitated that she cannot find the box of sea shantie tapes we brought to North Carolina (where we live) from San Francisco where she purchased them on the wharf. She has always told me that she never feels more like herself than when she is by the sea. Go figure.. this is a true story. "Mutiny on the Bounty" with Marlon Brando is one of her favorite films -- she has seen probably over 100 times.

    • @tinekeknol5837
      @tinekeknol5837 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is your name Moana, by any chance? haha

    • @jojojeostar7637
      @jojojeostar7637 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Sisyphus27 bro does that apply to other people who dreams of drowning in the sea? A friend of mine also has those kinds of dreams

  • @6663000
    @6663000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm a 10th generation Nova Scotian, grew up near Halifax, ancestors were seafarers, listened to Stan Rogers at home as a kid, and I used to be a professional boat captain.
    Never thought I'd see a day when sea shanties became mainstream.

  • @RiftLegacy
    @RiftLegacy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Listening to this while doing school work, imagining standing on a ship and looking at the sea.. Gonna make a crew! Who will stand by me! 🍻 We will say farewell to brave England’s white sands!

  • @lewcrawford7009
    @lewcrawford7009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +877

    One of my ancestors went to sea at age 13. At age 21 he became a ship's captain.

    • @chariotrequiem5465
      @chariotrequiem5465 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      You outta follow in his footsteps!

    • @lewcrawford7009
      @lewcrawford7009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +154

      @@chariotrequiem5465 Bit late for that Chariot as I'm now 70 years old!

    • @mewtwaila
      @mewtwaila 3 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      @@lewcrawford7009 Never too late to become the Captain of your own ship!! 😊

    • @chariotrequiem5465
      @chariotrequiem5465 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@lewcrawford7009 pfft even better

    • @frankiestein7092
      @frankiestein7092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      That turned nice for you. One of my relatives died at sea when he was about 4

  • @TheRockerGirlD7
    @TheRockerGirlD7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +322

    why does this feel like home? it gave me chills.

    • @jackmac2217
      @jackmac2217 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Because it's actual authentic cultural expression rather than mass produced "music" you get from MTV and radio.

    • @theodenking169
      @theodenking169 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's folk music, go check it out :)

    • @ghosty3494
      @ghosty3494 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jackmac2217 you are not wrong

    • @googlecontrolled
      @googlecontrolled 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      If it feels like home then to your genes it probably is! Must be some sailor blood in you.

    • @TheRockerGirlD7
      @TheRockerGirlD7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@googlecontrolled Haha wouldn't that be cool xD

  • @bellavigliotti5457
    @bellavigliotti5457 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My grandma lives near the beach and used to teach my and my siblings sea shanties. I am glad she did😊

  • @XJDBAU
    @XJDBAU 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Sea Shanties and Cadence Calling is when life hits different..

  • @ChicaChickenXD
    @ChicaChickenXD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1853

    copy of the description for mobile users!
    Track List
    0:00 - David Coffin - Roll the Old Chariot
    2:32 - The Dreadnoughts - Sally Brown
    4:08 - Jerry Bryant and Starboard Mess - Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate
    7:21 - The Dreadnoughts - Eliza Lee
    9:19 - Johnny Collins - Leave Her Johnny
    14:28 - The Revels - Rolling Down to Old Maui
    16:49 - The Dreadnoughts - Randy Dandy-Oh
    18:48 - Stan Rogers - Barrett's Privateers
    23:09 - Shanty Crew - Where Am I To Go M'Johnnies
    25:16 - Johnny Collins - Old Billy Riley
    26:55 - The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - Paddy Doyle's Boots
    28:17 - Johnny Collins - South Australia

  • @humbleguardsman5578
    @humbleguardsman5578 4 ปีที่แล้ว +724

    That point when everyone cried.
    *"Leave her johnn, leave her."*

    • @user-mc4ko2ru4u
      @user-mc4ko2ru4u 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I honestly prefer the AC4 remix of that song. I prefer the singers voice and the lyric changes

    • @mothhowl3024
      @mothhowl3024 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You know it’s talking about their ship, right?

    • @humbleguardsman5578
      @humbleguardsman5578 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@mothhowl3024 yes I am aware. She was a mighty sea vessel.

    • @frenchlasagna8138
      @frenchlasagna8138 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Good riddance, throw the las overboard.

    • @jamieedmonds574
      @jamieedmonds574 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This is not a sad song, but was a "pump shanty" sung in port after the voyage was done when the ship's hold was last pumped out and the sailors left to collect their pay.
      "Because of leakage of water into the holds of wooden ships, they had to be regularly pumped out. The frequency and monotony of this task inspired the singing of many shanties. One design of pump worked very similarly to the brake windlass, while another, the Downton pump, was turned by handles attached to large wheels. Examples: "Strike the Bell," "Fire Down Below," "South Australia", and "One More Day." An example of special note is "Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her" (also known as "Time for Us to Leave Her"), which was generally sung during the last round of pumping the ship dry once it was tied up in port, prior to the crew leaving the ship at the end of the voyage."
      You want a tragically sad sailing song about a ship sinking, try this classic from Steele Eye Span--"Let Her Go Down":
      th-cam.com/video/NP5APyKdAEU/w-d-xo.html

  • @JVeezy109
    @JVeezy109 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    Imagine, you're there, on the great blue Caribbean, on the deck of your vessel. After raiding a Spanish galleon, you and your mates sing these shanties in celebration as you head back to Tortuga for cigars, rum, and prostitutes. Despite the hard work, the danger, and the scurvy, it's for moments like these that it is all worth it.

    • @nekosaiyajin8529
      @nekosaiyajin8529 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      What meaning does your life have if you're not facing death once in a while?
      Modern life is empty

    • @jaredgunkle1562
      @jaredgunkle1562 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      glad to see a fellow weaver here

    • @tarniabook3076
      @tarniabook3076 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ¿Qué has dicho que le hiciste al galeón español?

    • @JoeJohnson-mk4qd
      @JoeJohnson-mk4qd ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nekosaiyajin8529 YOU PUT IT INTO WORDS
      fell like my life is without thrill or meaning if im just waiting safely until by demise of old age.

    • @themainman2827
      @themainman2827 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@tarniabook3076 pinches gringows y sus fetiches.

  • @Appelby
    @Appelby 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When I was in the navy, we were a group that made it our duty to know as many as possible.
    It spread on the ship and at every opportunity we were singing them.
    Starting aft and moving forward as the crew joined in

    • @larrybaker9924
      @larrybaker9924 ปีที่แล้ว

      My son was an officer and a gentleman in the United States Navy. He worked drug interdiction for part of his time on a frigate. The drug runners would look very strange when hearing his crew come aside singing sea shanties and boarding their boat.

  • @feralvillage5688
    @feralvillage5688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +275

    "never sail with a crew that can't sing" -said every smart captain ever!!

    • @thedictationofallah
      @thedictationofallah 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      no, sea shanties are made for people who cant sing and can. anyone can sing them

    • @feralvillage5688
      @feralvillage5688 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@thedictationofallah you totally missed the point. No worries Amigo. But yes I agree with you also.

    • @kennyball3956
      @kennyball3956 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      never sail with any1 who cant remember the lyrics either

    • @TheFolkRevivalProject
      @TheFolkRevivalProject ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did you know there are authentic recordings of sailors from the 1800s singing sea shanties?
      This video has 127 recordings of 37 shanties:
      th-cam.com/video/5E4hQdBwkk4/w-d-xo.html

    • @qhayiya252
      @qhayiya252 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thedictationofallah yeah, but if one doesn't sing with the crew with enjoyment then their morale will be low, and morale is really important on a 3-month voyage across an ocean.

  • @alpergezgin
    @alpergezgin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +350

    I finally found what was missing in my life

    • @bo0mzy663
      @bo0mzy663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      hi brother

    • @cheru1621
      @cheru1621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bo0mzy663 can i join the cult

    • @SuikastTakimi
      @SuikastTakimi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      congrats aga

    • @bo0mzy663
      @bo0mzy663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cheru1621 yes my brother

    • @cheru1621
      @cheru1621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bo0mzy663 thanks, what should i google to get the image

  • @motherteresa9127
    @motherteresa9127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I blast sea shanties at the shipyard while we're building. Everyone starts singing along sooner or later.

  • @jaystockman7087
    @jaystockman7087 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I absolutely love these kinds of songs. Gives me goosebumps every time.

  • @Kewonerdk
    @Kewonerdk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +97

    I’m so happy, that I’m one of the few people in the world, who have the chance to be a crew member on a old ship, and soon we will do cargo by sail again, our old girl will return to her true purpose. I feel so lucky. We will cross the Atlantic every year, carrying rum and coffee!

    • @TheRealSkeletor
      @TheRealSkeletor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Soon may the Wellerman come,
      To bring us sugar and tea and rum

  • @faeronmor2739
    @faeronmor2739 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    So my choir director started assigning us sea shanties, but I wasn't expecting to like them just as much as I did! I thought "oh cool! This will be different and fun" but I wasn't expecting to be listening to sea shanties in my free time... but oh well here I am now lol. No denying they are bangers

  • @mattelerch7066
    @mattelerch7066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    first time i ever got high i listened to this with my best friend since kindergarten as the sun was rising. we were on a balcony overlooking the ocean on the east coast. im never gonna forget that

  • @advurealmer5268
    @advurealmer5268 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    Imagine the amount of people wanting to become pirate’s... watch it become a Pirate Revolution

  • @spartanofrome5945
    @spartanofrome5945 4 ปีที่แล้ว +494

    Open a second youtube tab
    Search creaking ship at sea
    Bask in the immersion

    • @ryanotte6737
      @ryanotte6737 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I adjusted the volumes just right, and now I can't tell if I am sweeping the apartment floor or swabbing the deck of a wooden sailing ship.

    • @crazedbird89nt81
      @crazedbird89nt81 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      that works lol

    • @fthenwo2205
      @fthenwo2205 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Good idea

    • @RinKokonoe
      @RinKokonoe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This made this even better

    • @ecsluder
      @ecsluder 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Awesome idea!!

  • @rainierlozano3093
    @rainierlozano3093 3 ปีที่แล้ว +238

    This hits different at 12am, lying down on a yoga mat.

    • @TheRealSkeletor
      @TheRealSkeletor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Are you a broken man on a Halifax pier?

    • @202cardline
      @202cardline 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yoga mats float you know

    • @lemonnugget293
      @lemonnugget293 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This hits different at 5 when you know your supposed to be asleep but wanna hear the nice sea shanties...

    • @Achillunes
      @Achillunes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@solaris53 im thinking of a plot for a hetalia fanfic 😭✋

  • @roj0riot
    @roj0riot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i’m really glad sea shanties have become popular as of late. i like that more people are listening to these songs

  • @ejf3740
    @ejf3740 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I sang Eliza Lee while drunk in an Irish dive bar in NYC and man did they love it! I swear, a few people actually joined in!