{"id":914,"date":"2013-08-24T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T14:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=914"},"modified":"2015-01-16T08:19:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T12:19:14","slug":"books-to-read","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/?page_id=914","title":{"rendered":"Books to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shanties From The Seven Seas<\/strong>: Collected by Stan Hugill.\u00a0 If you ever collect <em>one<\/em> book for sea music, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">this is the\u00a0one<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0 You can find this one on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shanties-Seven-Seas-Maritime-Hugill\/dp\/0913372706\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1377439601&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=shanties+from+the+seven+seas\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a> and at <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.mysticseaport.org\/?fuseaction=shop.museumProduct&amp;storeNavigationID=34C71F83-B0D0-D05E-1AF795319007F06C&amp;productID=F5B624BB-145E-4361-A05BEAB1A901D5D6\" target=\"_blank\">Mystic Seaport<\/a>, among other venues.<\/li>\n<li>Howard Hornstein wrote a great book <strong>Favorite Sea Songs of the Ancient Mariners Chanteymen<\/strong>.\u00a0 I do not know if this is to be found on Ebay or Amazon, but if you track down the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientmarinersct.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ancient Mariners Fife&amp;Drum Corps<\/a>, you might be able to purchase a copy from their store keeper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_145855.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1567\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_145855-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"20131221_145855\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_145855-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_145855-773x1024.jpg 773w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_145855-624x825.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_145855.jpg 1326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you can find a copy, a fairly rare book worth collecting is <b>Ballads And Sea Songs of Newfoundland.<\/b>\u00a0 It is a collection by Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and publishing in 1933 by Harvard University Press.\u00a0 I found my copy via a used book seller vending through Ebay, but if you search enough, you may find a copy.\u00a0 Excellent resource and enoyable reading.<\/li>\n<li>During his visit up to rejoin us in December of 2013, our Bob Stepno gifted me a delightful little tome <strong>In Praise of Ale<\/strong> by W. T. Marchant, 1888.\u00a0 A collection of songs, poems, &amp;c relating to ale and beer&#8230; Like many early books of &#8220;songs&#8221;, the lyrics are provided but not the melodies, so it&#8217;s not readily useable for the singer in us.\u00a0 However, if you love the source information for so many of our drinking songs, and if perhaps you like to either make up your own melodies or apply tunes that make a good fit, then you need to hunt down a copy of this&#8230; It has been republished.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_183230.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1572\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_183230-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"20131221_183230\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_183230-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_183230-634x1024.jpg 634w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_183230-624x1007.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_183230.jpg 1137w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Songs The Whalemen Sang <\/b>by Gale Huntington, 1964, Barre Publishers.\u00a0 This is still in print, as I understand, and available through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Songs-Whalemen-Sang-Maritime-Huntington\/dp\/0939511096\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1377440930&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Songs+the+Whalemen+Sang\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>.\u00a0 And our own Rick Spencer wrote the forward seen in the later issues.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Real Sailor-Songs <\/strong>collected and edited by John Ashton, 1891.\u00a0 I have not found any reprints of this delightful collection although I&#8217;ve a copy in my own archives.\u00a0 Sea songs from the British perspective &#8211; alas, as was all too common with these early collections, the melodies are not provided, and any song sans melody is a poem yearning for a tune&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Real-Sailors-Songs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1166\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Real-Sailors-Songs-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"Real Sailor's Songs\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Real-Sailors-Songs-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Real-Sailors-Songs-635x1024.jpg 635w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Real-Sailors-Songs-624x1004.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Shanties And Sailors&#8217; Songs<\/strong> is another Stan Hugill book highly recommended. Well, anything the man wrote is required collecting for sea music libraries.\u00a0 It is no longer in print but you might find some second hand copies on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Shanties-sailors-songs-Stan-Hugill\/dp\/0257657681\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1377441131&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=Shanties+and+Sailors%27+Songs\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>; I would grab a copy while you can, for they cannot be available forever.\u00a0 My copy is a second printing, 1969, Praeger Publishers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Here&#8217;s a Good Luck to the Pint Pot ~ A Pocket Full of Drinking Songs<\/strong>: The late Caryl P. Weiss, a member of the all-ladies group &#8220;Liverpool Judies&#8221;, honourary Admiral of the Texas Navy, &amp;c, and friend of Cliff&#8217;s, had put together this little gem in 1979.\u00a0 Cliff was selling them during the mid-80s for 5$ apiece.\u00a0 But it is out of print and not likely to ever come back&#8230; If you can find one on Ebay or such, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">grab<\/span> it!<\/em>\u00a0 Or you might ask me nicely for a photocopy version&#8230; Caryl personally had given me permission to do just that as she had no plans to reprint.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pint-Pot-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1010\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pint-Pot-001-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pint Pot 001\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pint-Pot-001-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pint-Pot-001-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pint-Pot-001-624x884.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pint-Pot-001.jpg 883w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/248916_218357731518608_6462724_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1011\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/248916_218357731518608_6462724_n-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"248916_218357731518608_6462724_n\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/248916_218357731518608_6462724_n-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/248916_218357731518608_6462724_n.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Oxford Book of Sea Songs<\/strong>, chosen and edited by Roy Palmer.\u00a0 This is another really good one for your library &#8211; put out in 1986 but I believe it is no longer in print.\u00a0 However, there&#8217;s always <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/sch\/i.html?_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313&amp;_nkw=the+oxford+book+of+sea+songs&amp;_sacat=0&amp;_from=R40\" target=\"_blank\">Ebay<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Oxford-Book-Sea-Songs\/dp\/0192141597\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381070563&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+oxford+book+of+sea+songs\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1040912.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1114\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1040912-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"P1040912\" width=\"117\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1040912-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1040912-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1040912-624x959.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1040912.jpg 994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 117px) 100vw, 117px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Add to your more authentic seaman&#8217;s expression in song by reading &#8220;What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Drunken-Sailor-Unexpurgated-Chanties\/dp\/1626549885\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1385556406&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=drunken+sailor\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1383\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/51omIfqeB4L._SY344_BO1204203200_1-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"51omIfqeB4L._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_[1]\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/51omIfqeB4L._SY344_BO1204203200_1-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/51omIfqeB4L._SY344_BO1204203200_1.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>English Folk-Chanteys<\/strong>, by Cecil James Sharp, 1914. &#8220;With Pianoforte Accompaniment, Introduction and Notes&#8221;.\u00a0 This has been fairly recently republished by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kessinger.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kessinger Publishing, LLC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_125856.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1558\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_125856-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"20131221_125856\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_125856-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_125856-784x1024.jpg 784w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_125856-624x814.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_125856.jpg 1347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Songs of the Sea, Rivers, Lakes &amp; Canals<\/strong> by Jerry Silverman and published by Mel Bay.\u00a0 This is still available and can be had via Amazon or Ebay.\u00a0 Some very well known sea songs in here as well as some good but rarely heard songs you&#8217;ll want the lyrics and maybe music to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_125828.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1560\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_125828-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"20131221_125828\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_125828-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_125828-781x1024.jpg 781w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_125828-624x817.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20131221_125828.jpg 1351w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Victoria&#8217;s Inferno<\/strong> ~ Songs of the Old Mills, Mines, Manufactories, Canals and Railways.\u00a0 Edited by Jon Raven, 1978.\u00a0 What a little gem, this paperback is!\u00a0 Not in print currently to my knowledge but might be had through Amazon or Ebay, and a must for your library if your songs including reflections of the working class.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VI-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1656\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VI-001-174x300.jpg\" alt=\"VI 001\" width=\"174\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VI-001-174x300.jpg 174w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VI-001-594x1024.jpg 594w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VI-001-624x1075.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/VI-001.jpg 838w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Folk Songs of Old New England<\/strong>, collected and edited by Eloise Hubbard Linscott, 1939, Dover Books reprint, 1993.\u00a0 Interesting and varied selection, great sources, and still available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/T2eC16ZHJHEFFmKpRmk4BSc+BmPVFQ60_57.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1755\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/T2eC16ZHJHEFFmKpRmk4BSc+BmPVFQ60_57-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"$T2eC16ZHJHEFFmKpRmk4BSc+BmPVFQ~~60_57\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/T2eC16ZHJHEFFmKpRmk4BSc+BmPVFQ60_57-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/T2eC16ZHJHEFFmKpRmk4BSc+BmPVFQ60_57-720x1024.jpg 720w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/T2eC16ZHJHEFFmKpRmk4BSc+BmPVFQ60_57-624x886.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/T2eC16ZHJHEFFmKpRmk4BSc+BmPVFQ60_57.jpg 1126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Songs of the Sea<\/strong>, by Stan Hugill&#8230; One of his several publications and one might still find copies hanging around.\u00a0 It is interestingly presented and offers sea songs not only of England, Scotland, Ireland, US&#8230; But also France, Germany, Sweden, Italy&#8230; With decent translations although one determined to sing them in English may wish to rework them to fit the tune more naturally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20140323_171345.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1880\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20140323_171345-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"20140323_171345\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20140323_171345-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20140323_171345-854x1024.jpg 854w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20140323_171345-624x747.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20140323_171345.jpg 1216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Erotic Muse<\/strong>, by Ed Cray&#8230; &#8220;American Bawdy Songs&#8221;.\u00a0 A <em>very<\/em> interesting study of the development of off-colour and raunchy folk songs not only applicable to sea music.\u00a0 Simply a must for those interested in the &#8220;real feel&#8221; but not a tome to leave lying around when your mother comes to visit or for the kids to grab.\u00a0 Still in print, it seems!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20140323_171407.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1881 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20140323_171407-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"20140323_171407\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20140323_171407-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20140323_171407-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20140323_171407-624x949.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20140323_171407.jpg 1133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman<\/strong>, by William Main Doerflinger, is still available and a really good choice for your library.\u00a0 It explains the connection between men who worked the ships and then went on to work the forests when not at sea, and explains the use of the term &#8220;shantyman&#8221;\u00a0 in context of lumbermen rather than using it for those men at sea&#8230; One of the reasons why I insist upon &#8220;chanteys&#8221; for the sea-related work songs we do and reserve &#8220;shanties&#8221; for shacks by the sea or lumbering songs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Songs-of-the-Sailor-and-Lumberman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2482\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Songs-of-the-Sailor-and-Lumberman-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Songs-of-the-Sailor-and-Lumberman-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Songs-of-the-Sailor-and-Lumberman-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Songs-of-the-Sailor-and-Lumberman-624x942.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Songs-of-the-Sailor-and-Lumberman.jpg 808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>Pocock&#8217;s Everlasting Songster <\/strong>is a long out of print source in my collection that had been published in 1800 as an unofficial source book of procedural manners for the British Navy &#8211; order of official toasts, proper songs to sing at the table, and the like.\u00a0 Classic of song books of the ear, there are no melodies or even suggested ones for the songs therein, but the reader is left with the impression that the men at that time would have readily recognized the songs and jumped in with both feet even if they did not have <em>all<\/em> the words committed to memory &#8211; like the American National Anthem which most people pretty well know the first verse but rare is the person who knows anything further without a prompter &#8211; and this is a prompter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pocock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3129 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pocock-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"Pocock\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pocock-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Pocock.jpg 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanties From The Seven Seas: Collected by Stan Hugill.\u00a0 If you ever collect one book for sea music, this is the\u00a0one.\u00a0 You can find this one on Amazon and at Mystic Seaport, among other venues. Howard Hornstein wrote a great book Favorite Sea Songs of the Ancient Mariners Chanteymen.\u00a0 I do not know if this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":176,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-914","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/914\/revisions\/3130"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejovialcrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}