The Jovial Crew
Songs and tunes of the sea, pub, and shore – Historic and contemporary.
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3 Sept. 2015 – iCRVradio appearance
A Night At Moxie – 27 Aug 2015
Blizzard Colbie – 26 Jan 2015
Cafe Nine – New Haven – 18 Jan. 2014
Cinco de Mayo
Cliff’s Return 28 June 2021
Command Performance for Two – 20 July 2014
Crowning Queen Cait Night and guests – 10 Feb 2014
Fort Rodman Pyrate Invasion – 11 July 2015
Halloween – Monday 31 oct 2016
Hawaiian Shirt Night – 26 Aug. 2013
Our Halloween – 2014
Our Halloween – 28 Oct. 2013
Partial Band Reunion – 9 Dec. 2013
PEM – Salem, Mass – 19 June 2014
Pirate Monday 2014
Special Guest and Birthdays – 9 March 2015
St-Patrick’s Day Celebrations 2014
St-Pats in the Covered Bridge Room – 2015
Stuart standing in for Rick – 4 May 2015
Survivor’s Night – 12 June 2017
Survivor’s Night – 2010
Survivor’s Night – 2011
Survivor’s Night – 2014
Survivor’s Night 2013
Survivor’s Night 2015
The Swiss Mariners visit – 19 Aug. 2013
Some Historical Musings
A. L. Lloyd
Books to Read
Chanteys, Forebitters, Ballads, Ditties
Church of the Jovial Crew
Concertina
Jack Ashore
Marlinspike Mag
Movies to See
Of Ale, Beer, and Rum
Contemplations Old and New
Poem by our Joe Brown
The Commemoration of 1814
What the hell is a Broadside Ballad, Joseph?
Songs
A Man of War Song
A Pint of Old Peculier
A Pint of Plain (The Workman’s Friend)
A Pint Of Plain (The Workman’s Friend)
A Sailor Ain’t A Sailor
Abel Snow
According to the Act
Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy
Alabama John Cherokee
Ambletown (Home Dearie Home)
An Old Man Came Courting Me (aka Maids When You’re Young)
Anchors Aweigh, or the Navy March
And A Begging I Will Go
And When They Dance (The Lasses Who Dance)
Around Cape Horn
At The Boarding House
Away Rio
Away With Rum, or The Song of the Temperance Union
Barnacle Bill the Sailor
Barrett’s Privateers
Bear Away Yankee
Black Velvet Band
Blackthorne’s Chantey
Blood Red Roses
Blow the Man Down
Boney Was A Warrior
Bonnie Lass of Fyvie-O
Bonny Banks of Claudy
Boozin’!
Bully in the Alley
Cape Cod Girls (Codfish Chantey)
Captain Kidd
Chastity Belt
Chaunticleer
Chicken on a Raft
Cod Liver Oil
Come By The Hills
Coming ’round the Mountain
Congo River
Connecticut River Shad
Courtin’ in the Kitchen
Crooked Jack
Cruisin’ ‘Round Yarmouth
De Boatman Dance
Do Me Ama
Do You Love An Apple
Donald, Where’s Yer Troosers??
Doodle Let Me Go
Drink Today
Drive Sorrows Away
Drunken Sailor
Eat Bertha’s Mussels
Eight Bells
Fare Thee Well, Enniskillen
Farewell to Carlingford
Farewell to Nova Scotia
Fiddler’s Green
Finnegan’s Wake
Fire Down Below
Four Pounds A Day
Grey Funnel Line
Hal An Tow
Hallelujah I’m a Bum
Haul Away Joe
Haul on the Bowline
Have Some Madeira, M’Dear
Heave Away My Johnny
High Germany
Homeward Bound – New England Shores
House Carpenter
I Came To A Western Island
I Like Beer
I Like To Rise (Country Life)
I Wish I Was Single Again
If I Was A Blackbird – Paul Elliott version
If I Was A Blackbird – Rick Spencer version
It’s A Long Way To Tipperary
Jack Tar, or Come Brave Honest Jack Tar
James Drown
January Man
Jock Stewart (A Man You Don’t Meet Everyday)
John Kanaka
Johnny Come Down to Hilo – version bawdy
Jolly Roving Tar, or Get Up Jack, John Sit Down
Katie’s Song, or Monday Night
Leather Wing Bat
Leaving of Liverpool
Let The Good Times Ring
Let Your Back and Sides Go Bare
Life of a Leaf
Liverpool Lou
Liverpool Nights
Lowlands, Lowlands, Low
Maggie Mae
Maid from Amsterdam (A-Rovin’)
Maid on the Shore
Make and Break Harbour
Martin Said To His Man, or Who’s The Fool Now?
Mary Ellen Carter
Mary Mack
Merry Little Hop
Mingulay Boat Song
Mist Covered Mountains of Home
Monday Night at the Old Griswold Inn
Mrs. McGrath
My Husband’s a Mason
My Jolly Sailor Bold
My Lady From Bendigo
Nancy Whiskey, or The Carlton Weaver
New York Girls
Nine Times a Night
No Deep
North Sea Holes
Oh Good Ale, Thou Art My Darling!
Ol’ King Cole
Old Maui
Old Moke Pickin’ On A Banjo
Old Molasses Rum
One More Day
Our Happy Birthday Set
Pay Me
Pleasant and Delightful
Poverty Knock
Pretty Nancy of Yarmouth
Pub With No Beer
Quand Le Soleil
Queer Bungle Rye
Reuben Ranzo
Roll Down
Roll The Ol’ Chariots
Rolling Down The Bay To Julianna
Rolling Down The River
Rolling Home to Old New England
Rout to the Blues
Running Down To Cuba
Sail Away Ladies
Sally Brown
Sam’s Gone Away (on board a man of war)
Sheepshearing’s Over, or A Harvest Song
Shine Your Buttons With Brasso
Skipper Jan Rebec
South Australia
Spanish Ladies
Star of the County Down
Stixwould Harvest Song (Drink Good Ale!)
Strike the Bell
The Banks of Newfoundland
The Bonny Bay of Biscay-O
The Chandler’s Wife
The Coachman
The Crayfish
The Diamond
The Dogs Were Having A Party
The Dreadnaught
The E-RI-E Canal
The East Indiaman
The Ebenezer
The Farmer’s Toast, or Godspeed the Plough
The Farmington Canal Song
The Ferryman (The Liffey Ferry)
The Gloucestershire Wassail
The Goodnight Song
The Hills of Isle au Haut
The Hog-Eye Man
The Holy Ground
The Last Thing On My Mind
The Lasty Shanty (A Sailor Ain’t A Sailor)
The Man Who Waters The Workers’ Beer
The Mermaid
The Merman, or The Pretty Maid With a Tail
The Miller of Dee
The Nightingale
The Old Maid in the Garrett
The Old Rose and Crown
The Parting Glass (Good Night And Joy Be With You All)
The Rosabella
The Rum Runner, or Bellamena
The Sailor Hates The Rain
The Seamen’s Hymn
The Shaver
The Shoals Of Herring
The Shores of Botany Bay
The Wild Rover
The Hard Drinker
Three Drunken Maidens (Four Drunken Maidens)
Three Jolly Coachmen
Three Jolly Fishermen
Tuppence On The Rope
Wanderer
We Were Drunk Last Night
When Jones’ Ale Was New
Where Am I To Go
Whiskey in the Jar
Whup Jamboree
Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go (Wild Mountain Thyme)
Winds of Morning
Windy Ol’ Weather
Work of the Weavers
Yangtze River Chantey
Yarmouth Town
Ye Mariners All
The Scuttlebutt
Z – In Memoriam
Danny Quinn
Danny Spooner
Don Sineti
Louisa-Jo Killen
Good by Hermine
Kinda breezy but no storm! See you tonight for our end-of-summer sing!
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