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HONG KONG, MONDAY, JUNE 3,

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No.22,113號叁拾百壹仟弍萬弍第

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

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"YANGTSZE SONGSTM LEARNED BY SAILORS IN CANTON.

The interest in the old sea, songs continues, says a correspondent writ. ing to the Times. To the few of us who heard those songs on sailing ships they are, as sang to-day, said mummies wrapped for their preser- vation in cerements of harmony, which hide the virile beauty that they had when they were living.

Here is a picture that I have in mind:A shambling, perhaps a Bulky, discontented, crowd of men gather round the bits to hoist the heavy topsail yard-lumbering, slow moving figures clad in oilskins. The mate strikes up a shanty, and then that crowd is metamorphosed to a single rhythmic entity rasping out the chorus; and of an arduous piece of work is made an entertainment. The wards of those songs were not in all cases those one hears to-day, for sometimes they were very Rabelaisian; but at least as often they showed a fine and simple senti- ment. The Inment for Tom, Oh. Tom is gone, what shall I do?" is a gem of sentiment and melody.

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five have an abnormal cadence, of its ancestry. Hearing or singing which perhaps the best examples any of the better-known shanties. "Stormalong.'' "What (anys an editorial writer in the shall we do with a drunken sailor Times), the unlearned lover of and my explanation is that they music is apt to feel peculiarly Eng. are Chinese in their origin. On the lish on this side of the Atlantic: Upper Yangtsze, from the great and probably on the other side he junks with their crews of 40 men feels peculiarly "Canadian or Ame either case peculiarly or more, can be heard to-day shan-rican-in

and, indeed, North- ties, echoing between the cliffs of Western, the gorges. very similar to those Western. He will be wise to leave we know, except that the refrain to the experts the consideration ia in the shrill falsetto of a boy, the whether our correspondent is right; contrast of which with the guttural whether certain features in shanties chorus forms an added "charm, which he finds unlike most Occid- These songs are centuries old-ental music could not be paralleled perhaps millenaries. Their tone in- in the folk-sung of England and of tervals only approximate to our North America; whether he need mode: the third and fifth are similar look only to China for rhythms because these are elementary in which may perhaps have been Nature, but the other differ slight beaten out by the arms and legs ly. These songs have not, of course, and backs and feet of rope-pulling our cadence-that inere convention sailors of any aad of every nation; ality. Their cadence is similar to whether, in fact, he has not hit that of the five shanties have upon a profounder truth in the ad- passage which tells of referred to-they end anyhow, ac- mirable carding to the spirit of the song. something of nature.

From the latter half of the 17th something unspoilt by a uniform century the East India Company's convention; and thus curiously con Shanties of Land Origin.

ships traded with Canton, and they gruent with a sailor's life." What- There are many points of interest lay long periods in its neighbour ever the fate of his suggestion, bis about these shanties, but the one bood. It may be that in those days readers will thank him for bringing that forms the subject of this letter there were shanty-singing junks that home the universality of this form is their origin. The majority of traded on the great. West River, of aong, which, as the authorities shanties obviously did not originate in whose estuary Canton lies. We tell us," has been used in every age do not know if that was so, for and every land where seamen hoist the Taiping rebels wiped out that 'sail or pull at cars. river's trade. But, whether it was so or not is immaterial to my sup position, as Upper Yazgtsse junks

correspondent camo overland to Canton City. laments, is going out of use; and Literally they came overland, for the shanty would naturally go with though the ancient Chinese engin-... Henceforth it may be only a eers had not invented locks, they; survival, not an active growth, Tet in their desire for canalizing, had suppose that there were no longer walk found the equivalent in slimy slopes (as there still are) beautiful four-

of clay and strong capatans work-masted sailing ships on the highONG KONG HANSARD RE- ing hefty bamboo copes; and so the seas, and suppose that the shanty PORTS of the MEETINGS Upper Yangtze junks were hauled became useless on board except in of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

cross, the low continuation of a the form of the interminable narra- mountain range that separates the tive or doggered" jest which might for the Session 1928. two main rivers' tributaries. I prevail in ships that had not even have seen junks in Canton waters that had made that trip.

serve.

at sea; practically all the cnpstan and windlass songs did not do so, and the reason for this is plain enough to see. No special time- measure was needed for stamping round a capstan or heaving on a windlass almost any time would But for rope work it was very different; for that, according to its special nature, special times

There was were needed. away, when the inbour was not hery; there was stamp and go," whes, although the men could walk, the work was slower and needed a greater emphasis of rhythai: And there was sweating her up," when the men did not walk but made spas- modic pulls. Each of these purposes needed a special time, and that of shore songs would not serve.

There is evidence that the real

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a donkey-engine, still it could not be said that the shanty was a mere historical curiosity. Just when it

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So that is the idea." The sailors shanties of sailor origin are not so the English ships, lying for very cld-not older, say, than the months in the neighbourhood of landawomen who now-a-days hear a East India Company's ships. Did Canton, would hear the Yangtaze famous concert-party singing Eng other Western ships use shanties shanties on those junks and would lish and American shanties, or of their own My knowledge is see the virtue of their rhythm and listen to the gramophone records of against it, though doubtless sailor the uses made of it. Thus they them, or join in community singing, at all times have used a yodling adopted and fitted words to them. they seem abounding in irresistible sound to help in team work, for it They changed, of course, the tone vigour. Their rhythms make it hard is a world-wide practice; but these intervals to those their ears were for the most refined and languid melodies, so specially adapted to used to. In some cases they pre to keep still. "Their jollity comes their purpose, are another matter, served their special modal character romping through reserves and ecn- How did their use arise in English- and their cadence as an essential vention to bring smiles and laughter It was a out of the sternest; and their simple speaking, ships! Especially how ac-feature of the melody, couns for the fact that some of them feature in which lay their greatest sadness of farewell to sweetheart end on the dominant or sub-charm by reason of its strangeness. dominant instead of on the tonic There is something of Nature in note? Is it conceivable that British those endings, something unspoilt and American saflor-men, evolving by a uniform convention; and thus songs within the last century or two, curiously congruent with a sailor's would adopt a cadence difering so life. materially from that which was cus tomary to their ears? It could not be so.

Songs From the Yangtse.

Of the 18 shanties known to me that may be real sailor songs,

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Universality of Sea Songs.

and home has a quality of truth and beauty which will melt the most sophisticated. To those who come new to them, they seem to open up a whole new region of fun and feel- ing; and they bring no little of that life-giving and fortifying power which good rhythm, for reasons as

It would doubtless surprise many yet only imperfectly understood,

of our community singers to learn can exert upon the human spirit. that one of their favourites, "What They have an essential truth and

do with

a drunken sincerity which preserve them from shall we sailor 1" had anything Chinese in decay.

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King George V. born 1888.'.

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