Shanties from the Seven Seas

Once again in print, Stan Hugill's definitive book on the sailor's work songs that Americans call chanteys and Britons call shanties contains more than 400 songs, their music, and much more. In giving the histories of these songs, Stan Hugill gives us fascinating details of his own life as deepwater sailor and song-collector, of the vessels and ports and working routines of the sailing-ship era, of sea fact and sea folklore. This book includes many types of sea songs, grouped in five main chapters and 34 subchapters, and gives variants of songs, migrations of songs and tunes from one nation's ships to others, and relationships to other shanties, to African-American songs, to other kinds of work songs, to shore songs, to foreign-language songs of sea and shore.