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SEA CHANTIES,
THE SONGS OF TAUKI AND SHERTS
BY SEE BERKAT RUSSELL IN THE "NAVAL
AND MILITARY RENKO." |
Not very long ago 1 was watching the (nowadays) rare sight of ing sailing ship Her selling under way in the Downs. Lower Cans fell in festions from the yards, and the jis slowly fed up the stays. A Deal habuan sh street hy my mile said that the donkey boiler "had" "give to god out, and that thự nach would have the anchor by bul, like they used to do in the days when sailers was sailors,"
And then presently, borne upon the puer
Llase of the light easterly breeze, eme
uf a clanty seras at the words were ners the water. The air was
• Blow, Days, blow
[inaudible." It was
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handspikes as the great barrel slowly
home the red wet studded links of th en the chief are on the focal bead, urgite them to sing out and heave with a will, and the Skiper aft awaiting the j intimation et "Hový shurt!
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It is a curious fact that with the decline of the sailing ship there has tenuity arisen
negauintanier with the e
Ja wihr 19 years ago, her it
chauty was still no une mumenti ršperience in the life of a great serpent to far the larse
beaving or chorussing of sailors
or hauling the average handsman could have tob! yoti no more about the city than that it was a sortenf,sea soupr Today' if you ask th question of the average andsnu, it
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ore than likely that int only; will he be able to differentiate correctly between the sen song (which uny be one of Dillen's ballads or a dresy waltz alot white wings) and the chanty, but will be able give you several examples of the latter. This is a rather curious anomaly, seeing that there is now my very little at ken th sing about, but none the les is it a certain 67
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Mag, says Dana in his inimitable book
Two Years before the Mast," is as good na ten me. Not only does the, chanty brace the hands together in united effort, it puts them in good fumper by the vehicle it affords for an expressium ofülwir sentiments towards the skipper. the mutes the owners anybody and everybody whoni they regard as their ataril enemies suppose that clunties were originally composed to de finite words. But I have never yet heard two versions of any one of them quite alike.
ORIGIN OF THE WORD.
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Like many other things nautical, the cra tion of theclanty is attributed to the Ameri cans. But if etymology any index to origin I should say it comes from the French For the word is obviously corruption of chan- ter, and the Frencis always were such noisy sailors that it is easy to believe they began the musical business on ship ord. On the other hand, many Yankee composition.
of the
best-known chanties are indisputably "Across the We
Yestern Decan," "ll the cotton down,"
wn," "Bbw, boys, blow!" "Shen- สอนใจมา, The plains of Mexico" name only
a few-plainly bear their national imprint
But the most webvious clanlies are of British composition. Amongst ertainly if iritata col pivo pride of placu outward bound ehzaty, "Goodbye, well! Another
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the work which they are designed to ne Company. A windlass chanty is necessarily in slow time. A capstan chanty is con siderably quicker, and one of the favourities in this class was never written as a chanty at all being the old xir of Camp Town The hand-over hand, or palling chanty, is of the rollicking order, such as * Ip" she rise!" "Cheerily, Janen!' "Whisky, Johnnie!"
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In the paling days of sail the "chanty man was a very valuable member of the have to take to the pumps and keen your arew. He would select the particular song spirits up with "Whisky, Johnnie Things to be
sung on any occasion, and lead off improve, and you bound along again to solo, until it get the chorusing passarrive at your destination to "The gals have "Way, yah well onward roll." Finally, you of manual effort. One inevitable drawback the chanty is that it entails get hold of the tow rope!"
age
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great deal of singing to a very little hauling. You would hear the chants man delivering three or four fines of -usually unfit for publication-before he reached the admonition to "pull, my
bully which was taken up and acted
boyx, pun rest. It is only in the “walk
מרקט
of which Haul the away ditties, bowline!" is a good example, that there is concerted bawling and lauling throughout.
How is it that the sailorman, whatever the natural timure of his voice, invariably breaks into falsetto in chantying I have heard shellbacks, with tones deep as an organ note, become abrill us an hysterical woman in Boney A 2 warrior' "Ranzo." Probably this arises from some instinctive idea of enhanced effect, and eer- tainly the result is elmmcteristic. A chanty Bung monotonously in basso profundo would be a very melancholy affair.
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The chanty forina a musical category wholly its own. It no more belongs to the recognized order of sea songs than it belongs to "The albom of bio posies”
"Spanish ladies," "Tom bowling, unt A life on the ocean wave" are fine sea songs, but they are not a song.The
They are no more of a professinal order than are such ejaculations as "Shiver my timler!" or "Avast there!" samples of nautical dialect. Whilst it is very dificult to
to trace the original verses of most of the chanties, owing to the extent to which these have been improvised by genera- tions of Jacks, yet so far as this is possible there is very little reference to the sea in them. As a rule they apostrophize "Sally Brown" or
“Fair little maiden who in Lon- don did dwell" or "Shon doah's lovely daughter." "Blow the man down is mainly devoted to adithyrambie description of what happened in codequruce of "a-walk- ing down Paradise street
Of course, it is the romantic association of the chanty rather than the words sad music which appeala. These songs conjure up a wonderful series of pesan pictures. In fact, they would form a splendi - accompaniment. to any maritime kinema show depicting the progress of a voyage. You get under way to Goodbye, faro ye well," You raako sail to Blow the pna down" and "Rio" You roll inth blue water to Across the Western # Ocean. You got into dirty weather and shorten sail to "Stormy was warrior." You (Continued on next kolana.)
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