The Jovial Crew

Songs and tunes of the sea, pub, and shore – Historic and contemporary.

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    • 2010
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    • 2012
    • 2013
    • 2014
    • 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
    • Fields of Athenry
    • 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
    • Knocking Nellie, or The Ballad of Knocking Nellie
    • 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
    • Miss Bailey’s Ghost, or, The Unfortunate Miss Bailey
    • 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)
    • Windmills
    • 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
The Jovial Crew

An enquiry after the town of Stretcit – 1800 or so.

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on 24/03/2021 by JosMorn.

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