"Way haul away, we'll haul away Joe..." Absolutely love this! As an 18 year old working on tall ships every summer, we frequently sing this song while we haul up our anchor. :) This and heave away....."haul away, we're bound for south australia ;) )
This is a hauling chanty, not a capstan chanty. I'm afraid you summer sailors were using the wrong chant! (grin) A capstan chanty would be "Leave Her Johnny, Leave Her".
Sorry american listeners but this is an old Cornish fisherman's shanty, sung to time the hauling of ropes. The fact it was sung by the fine men of USMC (being an ex Royal Marine myself, and having shared the same hangovers the next morning as some great lads and friends and fine men as they are) is no surprise as most of the original marines were sailors and traveled the world bringing back and passing on songs of lusty girl they had met in some port or other etc. Great old photos in the video,
Just soooo you knooooooww 'Timmy' is their quick rendition of 'To me'. It's a hauling chant, as I'm sure you can imagine. Men would sing it in rhythm as they hauled huge ropes on the docks.
Robert CarGyu I know that here in the US Army, Joe is a term for just any lower enlisted soldier. Many people say this is because of G.I. Joe, but enlisted US personnel were called Joes well before the toy came around. I'm assuming that the term Joe is kind of a blanket name, like John Doe. As much as some people hate to admit it, the US military is too young to have it's own solid foundations and traditions so I would doubt that we borrowed the term Joe from the UKs military force a long time ago.
Skyler Keith As far as i've heard G(Goverment) I(Issued) Joe was a slang term used for soldiers sent to Vietnam. It is to show how dehumanised and dispenseable they were. And after the war it just got stuck in the language and lost its negative edge.
So glad to find this song. Back when I was a little girl in the 70's, my grandmother's boyfriend I called "Uncle Fred", used to sing this song to me and it stuck with me since then. Thank you for putting this up! What a fond memory.
Heidi Melendez It was such a great movie, that's where I came from too, it'a very cool that they incorporated a real "sailor's song" into the movie don't you think
*Haul Away Joe* _Traditional, performed by_ The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem When I was a little boy So my mother told me - to me ! Way, haul away We'll haul away, Joe! That if I did not kiss the girls My lips would all grow mouldy - to me! Way, haul away We'll haul away, Joe! Way, haul away The good ship now is rolling - to me! Way, haul away We'll haul away, Joe! King Louis was the King of France Before the revolution Way, haul away We'll haul away, Joe! And then he got his head cut off It spoilt his constitution Way, haul away We'll haul away, Joe! Now first I met a Yankee girl And she was fat and lazy - to me! Way, haul away We'll haul away, Joe! And then I met an Irish girl She damn near drove me crazy - to me! Way, haul away We'll haul away, Joe! Way, haul away We're bound for better weather - to me! Way, haul away We'll haul away, Joe!
A pity England didt not acknowledge the goals of germany in the 20th century. Now you have to live with the consequences. Perhaps we all will fight for Europe together! As someone believed, we should!
This is a good example of a capstan song. The sailors would sing it to keep in time as they pushed on the levers of the capstan, the device that winds up anchor chains as the ship is raising the anchor. Such songs were also sung while hauling in any cables (ropes) or chains. On modern ships, motors wind the capstans, but sailors can still sing for fun.
This is great! One of the best renditions of I have waited years to see something like this video, and I am sure I am not alone. Some of the ship and crews there are the Hartford, the Miami, the Monitor, the Alabama, the Pawnee and the Kearsarge. Thank you, rexlibris99!
hey now, i was at a maritime fest just last weekend and there were about 75 sailors singing this song (among others)! If you live near water there is a maritime community, it might just be a little bit hard to find. They're usually more in ports with Tall Ships - yachties are too modern for shanties.
These songs were part of the culture of a very special breed of men; sailors in the true meaning of the word, who knew they were part of a specific elite, handling the very top of XVIIIth century technology, and navigating around the world with it. Many times suffering incredible hardSHIPS and having to take risks, even in every day labour, that would be totally unacceptable in the eyes of XXIth century labour regulations. And many times cursing their job, but also taking enormous pride in it and hooked on living at sea. Regarding land and the people living there as an alien and hostile enviroment, actually becoming sick of ground that was NOT moving underneath their feet, air not smelling of salt, tar and wood and driven mad by silence without the constant croaking of wood and rope and the whistling or howling of the wind in the riggings. The ship and the sea was their home and once land bound by old age and/or invalidity they withered away like wild birds in a cage. A boy or man who decided for the sea either rejected it profoundly after the first voyage, or stayed a sailor for the rest of his active life.
The feeling is the same for seafarers now. I went to sea when I was 18 and have worked everything from yachts to AHTS. I've been away from my Wife and Children for up to 9 months a year, lost contact with friends and become detached from family. The first week of a trip you crave for home...after 2 weeks at home you crave the sea. It's a tug of war. But I can't do anything else. It's a calling. I don't understand the odd ways of land lubbers...especially when it comes to work ethic and social protocols. You listen to the lessons of old salts and pass them on to greenies...traditions and superstitions intact. The tech may have changed but the sea has not. She's still a beautiful and brutal mistress...deserving of respect. As soon as you think you have seen it all she can still throw something at you to take you by surprise. You never stop learning. I've seen the most beautiful sights at sea and the most terrifying things too. Dolphins creating vortex's in the bioluminescent algae as they swim alongside at night, to getting stuck in the bay for three days in a force 10 gusting 11...waves taller than the mast. It's the love of my fucking life.....
@@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 Fishermen don't sing shanties . As with all shanties, this song dates from the 19 century when shanties were sung- or chanted - by merchant seamen aboard trading vessels . Haul away Joe was sung to the hauling of sails ...
These shanies are much older than the Civil war. They are fron the wind jamming days, the mid 1800's saw the end of wind jamming and the beginning of steam power. These shanties were used to keep time while hauling on braces, brales, sheets and halyards. These are from the days when ships were made of wood, and men were made of iron.
this song was sung by royal navy during the early 19th following it disapproval of the french revolution. in fact the US were big supporter of the french revolutionary Government since it was the french that really defeat the Brits at the battle of Yorktown
I've always thought that this is one of Tom Clancy's best songs. I don't think I've heard this version before. What album is it from? The version I have was not recorded live. I like this one better. The pictures are nice too.
Thank you Teresa Radice and Stefano Turconi for introducing me to this ! And thank you for your work of art Il Porto Proibito (BD Le Port des Marins Perdus) ❤
My old pal at Glasgow art school Alan Kane used to put wan hawn oor his left ear and blast this oot while banging his right knee and foot doune in time...how i miss him...Alan get in touch mate.
While I agree with much of the above, I would just like to clarify. The mid 1800s saw the introduction of the Forbes Rig and the Clipper ship. The Windjammers came along in the early 1900s. Depending on who you ask, steam did not surpass sail (in terms of tonnage of freight carried) until the anywhere from the 1880s until as late as the 1930s. In fact, the Thomas W Lawson was a 7-masted, steel-hulled schooner built in 1902 that was used as a collier and later as an oil tanker.
I like it and love it. So I was nicely think, they would also sing a sea shanty as I would imagine in during in the American Civil War. And along with Jules Verne time.
merchant ships definatly but military ships often had either specific working shanties or forbade shanties altogether, though it did depend on the captain. Thats my understanding at least.
i love shanties, and i love this shanty. but i can't help but to think of south park when listening to this song. when he says "tell me", it sounds like he's saying 'TIMMY!"
what sounds like timmeh is slang Irish its (Too me) pulling the ropes for the yard arms. and hoisting the sails. I love this song thanks to the Clancys and my Irish relitives and My Navy and Marine family members
I think you're mixing terms. The "wind jammers" were post-Civil War era ships, very late 19th/early 20th century actually. They were the last great sailing ships, but they were steel-hulled. They were known for there simply absurdly large amounts of square-rig sail area, "jamming" the wind up. And even before that, but after the Civil War, was the high time of the long-distance fast clipper ships. Steam power did grow in importance after the war but it wasn't immediate, tech had to be improved.
@Briselance Not the Navy. Granted, different tasks were allotted depending on race. Usually black sailors would be given kitchen duties and the like, but I think it could depend on the captain.
These shanties were working songs on ship ... for giving a rythymn to whatever they were doing on deck. Hauling ropes and the like .... to maintain uniformed working. And the words would often be different from ship to ship.
It's a very old song, in it's original form it is public domain, as well as any version published before 1932. Any version published after 1932, such as the Clancy's version (probably 50s or 60s, I'm too lazy to go and find my CD) is probably copyrighted.
"Way haul away, we'll haul away Joe..." Absolutely love this! As an 18 year old working on tall ships every summer, we frequently sing this song while we haul up our anchor. :) This and heave away....."haul away, we're bound for south australia ;) )
This is a hauling chanty, not a capstan chanty. I'm afraid you summer sailors were using the wrong chant! (grin) A capstan chanty would be "Leave Her Johnny, Leave Her".
@@bruceringrose7539 That's a pretty good one too
Irish accent?
Now you are about 29-30 years old...
hows being thirty
This is the most accpeptable pace for a long-haul shanty i've found on youtube so far.
th-cam.com/video/x73TAgmZYAM/w-d-xo.html
Kodaline version
Sorry american listeners but this is an old Cornish fisherman's shanty, sung to time the hauling of ropes. The fact it was sung by the fine men of USMC (being an ex Royal Marine myself, and having shared the same hangovers the next morning as some great lads and friends and fine men as they are) is no surprise as most of the original marines were sailors and traveled the world bringing back and passing on songs of lusty girl they had met in some port or other etc. Great old photos in the video,
thank you for the correction.
What's your evidence that it's Cornish?
@@Flipdrivel their accents?
I don't see where someone claimed it was American.
@@tylerwilliams8638 this is actually sung by an Irish group, the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.
Just soooo you knooooooww
'Timmy' is their quick rendition of 'To me'. It's a hauling chant, as I'm sure you can imagine. Men would sing it in rhythm as they hauled huge ropes on the docks.
Nice! Always wondered that, but is then Joe just a dude oooooorrr....? :D
Robert CarGyu I know that here in the US Army, Joe is a term for just any lower enlisted soldier. Many people say this is because of G.I. Joe, but enlisted US personnel were called Joes well before the toy came around. I'm assuming that the term Joe is kind of a blanket name, like John Doe. As much as some people hate to admit it, the US military is too young to have it's own solid foundations and traditions so I would doubt that we borrowed the term Joe from the UKs military force a long time ago.
Skyler Keith
As far as i've heard G(Goverment) I(Issued) Joe was a slang term used for soldiers sent to Vietnam. It is to show how dehumanised and dispenseable they were. And after the war it just got stuck in the language and lost its negative edge.
No that is entirely wrong. Joe is short for Joseph, an unpopular name in Great Britain where the stereotypical name was Tom, John or Harry.
+Lionhearth92 It\\The term predates the US war in Viet Nam.
So glad to find this song. Back when I was a little girl in the 70's, my grandmother's boyfriend I called "Uncle Fred", used to sing this song to me and it stuck with me since then. Thank you for putting this up! What a fond memory.
I heard this in the movie, "The Finest Hours". i enjoyed enough to look it up. Thank you,
and i heard in Assassin's creed IV balck flag
Heidi Melendez The lyrics were changed up in the movie.
Yup same
I first heard it on a cassette tape of a radio dramatization of "Moby Dick"
Heidi Melendez It was such a great movie, that's where I came from too, it'a very cool that they incorporated a real "sailor's song" into the movie don't you think
gonna jam 2 this tune like Gilbert Blythe ;)
HEHEHEHHEHEHEH ME
*Haul Away Joe*
_Traditional, performed by_ The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
When I was a little boy
So my mother told me - to me
!
Way, haul away
We'll haul away, Joe!
That if I did not kiss the girls
My lips would all grow mouldy - to me!
Way, haul away
We'll haul away, Joe!
Way, haul away
The good ship now is rolling - to me!
Way, haul away
We'll haul away, Joe!
King Louis was the King of France
Before the revolution
Way, haul away
We'll haul away, Joe!
And then he got his head cut off
It spoilt his constitution
Way, haul away
We'll haul away, Joe!
Now first I met a Yankee girl
And she was fat and lazy - to me!
Way, haul away
We'll haul away, Joe!
And then I met an Irish girl
She damn near drove me crazy - to me!
Way, haul away
We'll haul away, Joe!
Way, haul away
We're bound for better weather - to me!
Way, haul away
We'll haul away, Joe!
OMG THANKS❤️❤️❤️
Thank you
Is it the cornish acenet?
You just know that all those guys were some tough bastards.
Came here from Snuff - Y Olde Folke Twatte. Love both songs
Watched the movie "The Finest Hours" and it was so good so I searched for this
same
Ashen Perera yep
Same!!!
Sme
This is so amazing. How can you not like this?
Been listening to this since I was a kid; Mum had the Album. That's 1960s. We've lost them all now (The Clancys) and Tommy..
Love the photographs as well ss the shanty!!!!!!❤❤❤
This is in the finest hours!!!!!!
yupp...
+Caitlin Cervantes right, because of this i'm here
A pity England didt not acknowledge the goals of germany in the 20th century. Now you have to live with the consequences.
Perhaps we all will fight for Europe together! As someone believed, we should!
This is a good example of a capstan song. The sailors would sing it to keep in time as they pushed on the levers of the capstan, the device that winds up anchor chains as the ship is raising the anchor. Such songs were also sung while hauling in any cables (ropes) or chains. On modern ships, motors wind the capstans, but sailors can still sing for fun.
This is great! One of the best renditions of
I have waited years to see something like this video, and I am sure I am not alone.
Some of the ship and crews there are the Hartford, the Miami, the Monitor, the Alabama, the Pawnee and the Kearsarge.
Thank you, rexlibris99!
sailorette1 this is great love tommy makem and the clancy brothers all there stuff is great.no bands today can match there vocals with out electronics
hey now, i was at a maritime fest just last weekend and there were about 75 sailors singing this song (among others)! If you live near water there is a maritime community, it might just be a little bit hard to find. They're usually more in ports with Tall Ships - yachties are too modern for shanties.
Semper Fi, rexlib. Two good friends of mine are Marines, and all my prayers go out to them and all who serve.
Great job.
These songs were part of the culture of a very special breed of men; sailors in the true meaning of the word, who knew they were part of a specific elite, handling the very top of XVIIIth century technology, and navigating around the world with it.
Many times suffering incredible hardSHIPS and having to take risks, even in every day labour, that would be totally unacceptable in the eyes of XXIth century labour regulations. And many times cursing their job, but also taking enormous pride in it and hooked on living at sea. Regarding land and the people living there as an alien and hostile enviroment, actually becoming sick of ground that was NOT moving underneath their feet, air not smelling of salt, tar and wood and driven mad by silence without the constant croaking of wood and rope and the whistling or howling of the wind in the riggings.
The ship and the sea was their home and once land bound by old age and/or invalidity they withered away like wild birds in a cage. A boy or man who decided for the sea either rejected it profoundly after the first voyage, or stayed a sailor for the rest of his active life.
The feeling is the same for seafarers now. I went to sea when I was 18 and have worked everything from yachts to AHTS. I've been away from my Wife and Children for up to 9 months a year, lost contact with friends and become detached from family. The first week of a trip you crave for home...after 2 weeks at home you crave the sea. It's a tug of war. But I can't do anything else. It's a calling. I don't understand the odd ways of land lubbers...especially when it comes to work ethic and social protocols. You listen to the lessons of old salts and pass them on to greenies...traditions and superstitions intact. The tech may have changed but the sea has not. She's still a beautiful and brutal mistress...deserving of respect. As soon as you think you have seen it all she can still throw something at you to take you by surprise. You never stop learning.
I've seen the most beautiful sights at sea and the most terrifying things too. Dolphins creating vortex's in the bioluminescent algae as they swim alongside at night, to getting stuck in the bay for three days in a force 10 gusting 11...waves taller than the mast.
It's the love of my fucking life.....
Thanks for sharing that
A fascinating insight into a world we’ll never know
play this at my funeral
God bless her Majesties Royal Navy 🏴🇬🇧
shanties weren't allowed in Her Majesty's Royal Navy
@@mickburke1 This is possibly a fisherman's shanty
@@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 Fishermen don't sing shanties . As with all shanties, this song dates from the 19 century when shanties were sung- or chanted - by merchant seamen aboard trading vessels . Haul away Joe was sung to the hauling of sails ...
@@mickburke1 Thank you, however I will note that fishermen sing shanties at least in the New World
Well I found this because of The Simpsons! :D
Remus Lol same!! "Way heal away, we'll heal away joe"
Jajajajaja 😂😂😂
Which episode?
OMG, me too kkkkkkkkkk
Remus So did I.
When I was a kid in the late 80s in the UK, we sang sea shanties in Junior School... was that normal?
No but it's cool.
This is still the best version ever on the ears
,bring back the finest hour moment 🤗
BRING IT!!!!
Romanticized in a way that makes me want to work for blisters and blood on my hands. Real hard work. Real work.
The song is by the Clancy brothers. Tom Clancy is the guy singing from Tipperary, he's Southern Irish.
Year 7 music nostalgia hitting hard
that's Tom Clancy of the famous Clancy Brothers.
Indeed it is.
I'm here bc of Anne With An E XD
hahaha same xdd
I feel that stronglyyy
Me too :)))
me toooo
So am I
I don't know why I look through the comments every time i listen song. They never change
Love those old pics. Just moments lost in time
I don’t care where the song came from this is the best version of the song I’ve ever heard
Great Shanty. Thanks for sharing!
Ferocious dog have covered this and done a magnificent job.
I love this version for the sound of it
Another favorite, loving this.
These shanies are much older than the Civil war. They are fron the wind jamming days, the mid 1800's saw the end of wind jamming and the beginning of steam power. These shanties were used to keep time while hauling on braces, brales, sheets and halyards. These are from the days when ships were made of wood, and men were made of iron.
this song was sung by royal navy during the early 19th following it disapproval of the french revolution. in fact the US were big supporter of the french revolutionary Government since it was the french that really defeat the Brits at the battle of Yorktown
I've always thought that this is one of Tom Clancy's best songs. I don't think I've heard this version before. What album is it from? The version I have was not recorded live. I like this one better.
The pictures are nice too.
Irish girl that almost drove him crazy. That makes sense. ;)
I learned this from my Dad. He was an A.B for almost 20 years
Thank you Teresa Radice and Stefano Turconi for introducing me to this ! And thank you for your work of art Il Porto Proibito (BD Le Port des Marins Perdus) ❤
My old pal at Glasgow art school Alan Kane used to put wan hawn oor his left ear and blast this oot while banging his right knee and foot doune in time...how i miss him...Alan get in touch mate.
For everybody interested, the singer is Johnny Collins.
skittlesareyum48 the singers are the Clancy Brothers.
Tom Clancy is the soloist.
While I agree with much of the above, I would just like to clarify. The mid 1800s saw the introduction of the Forbes Rig and the Clipper ship. The Windjammers came along in the early 1900s. Depending on who you ask, steam did not surpass sail (in terms of tonnage of freight carried) until the anywhere from the 1880s until as late as the 1930s. In fact, the Thomas W Lawson was a 7-masted, steel-hulled schooner built in 1902 that was used as a collier and later as an oil tanker.
They're all still with us.
You just have to listen....
#realtalk
I was under the impression that there had been some sort of Cornish revival.
Thank you Gilbert
I'm army, and even I think this song and the propaganda of the time is just so enchanting and makes me want to be a seaman.
16 years insane!!!!
I'm here because I'm on month number two of a lock down and I'm bored to tears.
Luv this, awesome performance!!!!!!
During War of 1812, we had a navy too! Watch-"Stan Rogers-Barretts Privateers".
I like it and love it. So I was nicely think, they would also sing a sea shanty as I would imagine in during in the American Civil War. And along with Jules Verne time.
damn it, whenever they say timmy i think of south park and laugh. good song though
OMG I HAVE TEARS
XTHEKEVINATORX Ha Ha you've just changed this song forever for me!!! timmyyyyy!
It says “to me” in dialect not Timmy but it’s funny to imagine 😂😂😂
libalah TIMMMEH
It's not Timmy, it's Jammy, either that or the Brothers changed the name for my CD.
Great tune! Lots of memories!!
I don't know what they call this song but I love it
Wow this is awesome! Great chords
merchant ships definatly but military ships often had either specific working shanties or forbade shanties altogether, though it did depend on the captain. Thats my understanding at least.
9 people couldn't haul.....
i love shanties, and i love this shanty. but i can't help but to think of south park when listening to this song. when he says "tell me", it sounds like he's saying 'TIMMY!"
what sounds like timmeh is slang Irish its (Too me) pulling the ropes for the yard arms. and hoisting the sails. I love this song thanks to the Clancys and my Irish relitives and My Navy and Marine family members
Actually, this song was most popular in the middle 18th century. But a great vid! I love that song
I think you're mixing terms. The "wind jammers" were post-Civil War era ships, very late 19th/early 20th century actually. They were the last great sailing ships, but they were steel-hulled. They were known for there simply absurdly large amounts of square-rig sail area, "jamming" the wind up. And even before that, but after the Civil War, was the high time of the long-distance fast clipper ships. Steam power did grow in importance after the war but it wasn't immediate, tech had to be improved.
This song makes me feel the need to work/fight.
@Briselance Not the Navy. Granted, different tasks were allotted depending on race. Usually black sailors would be given kitchen duties and the like, but I think it could depend on the captain.
Thanks for the upload my grandfather sang this!
I heard it from the show Anne with an e
My love for the sea brought me here.
here because of "The Tale of the Cowboy Philosopher" episode of NPR's Hidden Brain
learned this in 5th grade music class.
I aspire to have half the magnificent facial hair some of these guys had
I would add this tribute to the Revenue Cutter Service as well (modern US Coast Guard).
These shanties were working songs on ship ... for giving a rythymn to whatever they were doing on deck. Hauling ropes and the like .... to maintain uniformed working. And the words would often be different from ship to ship.
Atlas ASMR brought me here
Yes, Stan Rogers was a great song-writer, wasn't he? Among Canada's finest, if I might say so.
Finalmente achei a música que o Gilbert e os Cuthbert cantam em Anne Whit an E
It’s the best version of the song I’ve ever heard. The sound quality is bad on every other place I’ve heard it
This song is my age 😭😭
This song is like 200 dude
There were quite a few Irishmen in the US navy.
The Sea chanty was originally called the paddy railroad song.
Great song.
Actually It's "T'Me" Or if you prefer "Ta Me." He's Chanting while singing, when he says "Timmy" He's asking for the rope his way.
still after near a thousand years at sea, no one can compare to the might of the british Royal Navy.
shanties were not allowed in the Royal Navy
i love old songs X3
Haul away Joe?...more like haul away Jack!! ;0)
Yes it is The Clancy Brothers with Tommy Makem and a rare appearance of Timmy from South Park ( you can just hear him in verses)
This song is used in the new assassins creed 3 on the first naval mission.
All I can think of is timmy from south park
Man always have a thing for the sea...
Please, please!!! Can someone tell me the year that this song was released? It's really from the 19th century? I really would like to know!!!
It's a sea shanty lmao
It's a very old song, in it's original form it is public domain, as well as any version published before 1932. Any version published after 1932, such as the Clancy's version (probably 50s or 60s, I'm too lazy to go and find my CD) is probably copyrighted.
it’s an English navy shanty . Hundreds of years old
Thank you very much, people!
audience can never clap on beat
13 years ago
Perfect for sailing and Far Harbor!
Great images
thanks "Anne " for showing me this song !!
of pully hauley's like this they said "one song is worth 10 men"
I'm gonna be singing this in choir. Yay😁
Yay same
Haul Away Joe is also present in Assassin's Creed III