TalkAwhile - The Folk Corporation Forum

Now then m'dears the old Fairport 78's is wearin out an the lads bein a bit lucky like on the last trip is investigatin in a 3PM player.

They've heard you can add tracks off any album an so want to create a Fairport at Sea selection to listen while takin tea and suchlike in the afternoon at 3pm.

So far they've demanded Sir Patrick Spens and Lorra Rooks can you suggest some more for 'em they're gettin meaner by the hour... I fear for me safety unless they get their demands... help..

Puggs in a fix like

A Sailor's Life???

Polly on the shore is the first one that springs to my mind, oh and don't forget Honour & Praise, oh and you might see a 'Wounded Whale' as well  ;)

Yes but it must be the clean version .... I can't tell 'e what happened the last time they heard that after hours version (shudders)

Oops just realised was mixin it up with the Sailor's Alphabet..... just goes to show how it affected me.....  >:( >:(

a must for any FC at sea compilation is "sir william gower"

Don't forget Spanish Main scene of many a piratical conquest.

the ones up above, especially the spanish main
General Taylor
The banks of the sweet primroses
Bonny bunch of roses

all kind of mention seafaring ways.

Steeleye span have a few seafaring songs. Plus Whalers dues by tull, Calypso by Denver, The wreck by Gentle Giant.
Also The Ian Cambell folk group has Swarb singing some fantastic seafaring songs. Also A.L.Lloyd has a bunch of good ones.

and no compilation is complete without a copy of sloth.........."dont you cry on the sea"

If connections are permitted - Sandy's "The North Star Grassman And The Ravens" would seem a sea-going essential.

The Islands.

Almost there (OK so some one will say that was ice, but there was water underneath!)

not sure if pirates will want to listen to polly on the shore

ye Marriners all.................

Lady of Pleasure....has a tenuous connection with the sailing fraternity

And just in case you feel like a bit of on board recipe advice don't forget The Lobster.  :)

Jackdaw

Close to You.. there's a lighthouse in it!

Moat on the Ledge.

well there is water associated with it  ??? ::)

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 best place for it :D

Words of wisdom there Jim ... as ever!!

 ;) ;D

Claudie Banks was about a sailor boy who ploughed the raging main (not the canals ;D)

Thankee peeps the ole 3PM player is fillin up nicely. The lads were wonderin if there were any raunchie ones like...

The aforementioned Sailer's Alphabet ;D ;D
mic

No raunch but Honour and Praise does have the ship sinking which may not bode well for any voyage.

The Game Pieces!
it's a shipwreck what starts the ball rolling ;)

mic

What about Sir Patrick Spence, he was a sea captain. Or as it a bit long for the player  ;D

Paul

In Sir Patrick Spence I clean forgot the forty second verse, so I sang the twenty seventh twice as loud and in reverse, and no one noticed.

Nah it's got a 1 jig a bite memory so about 16 albums worth ... or so I'm told... that's about 2,000 78s. Bit worried cos I can't find the handle to wind it up..... must be very small the hole's tiny.  ???

There's even pirates on the FC website!! This is all getting far too confusing ::) ;)

rachel

Yes there's hope for a gig on the poop deck yet  ;D

(as opposed to a poop on the jig deck).... oh dear a perfectly acceptable witty comment brought down to the level of the gutter yet again.........

Over the Falls.. well there's a LOT of water in that song too!!!

Is Sandy on her own allowed?  The Sea Captain?

Seein it's you, yes.

Taaaaa!  Cap'n

xxx

I travel over the sea and ride the rolling sky,
For thats the way it is, that is my fortune.
There are many ears to please, many peoples love to try,
And everydays begun rising for the moon.

Has anyone mentioned that one?

No they haven't but I'm beginnin to think that perhaps the chaps have been sponsored by Stavros Shippin fer years....

I bin thinkin about the above.... anyone care to name an album that has no reference to the sea or things naval at all?  ???

Kraftwerk - Autobahn  :D

Oh, you mean a FAIRPORT album, sorry.  ;)

er what about Rosie

Tee hee got yer but it took a long while  >:(


Me with you .... or go sailing in a galleon with a good crew!!!!!!!

 ;D

Anymore fer anymore???

Um Angel delight?  :)

Expletive Delighted?

Portmeirion   ;D

SIR WILLIAM GOWER
I am a sailor, both stout and strong
To a goodly vessel I do belong
Well guard and anchored and well equipped
Sir William Gower and a very fine ship

Our captain in his cabin lay
When a dreadful voice to him did say
"This night with me in the deep you'll be
So prepare yourself and your company"

The sky grew dark and the sea grew still
Though the men were fearful and the air was chill
Sir William rose to meet his men
Saying "Hear me now for I'll not speak again"

"I loved my mother when she was alive
And to my sister I gave babies five
I killed my wife and her children three
So I now must face what has come for me"

"You'll lash a timber close to my side
And throw me out on the water wide
And if I swim then let me be
But if I sink them pray for me"

So we tied his head and we tied his feet
And around his middle a winding sheet
At every knot the sea did stir
Grew ready for the murderer

And then we saw his open grave
The likeness of a single wave
That swept our ship from her stern to her bow
And bore away Sir William Gower

No relation ;)

Gower Flower ;D

Glad to hear that GF!! :o

I realised once I had posted it but it was too late to  alter it when it occurred to me. How could I have forgotten! :o

Well at least you were brave enough to have a go.

Three beers for the brave people that have had a go...

Anymore fer anymore??