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[–] 59 points 1 month ago (19 children)

How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now...

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (16 children)

    A letter of mark marque came from the king

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (11 children)

    To the scummiest vessel I'd ever seen

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 1 month ago (10 children)
  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    We'd fire no guns, shed no tears

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

    Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier,

    the last of Barrett's privateers.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Oh Elcid Barrett cried the town

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    (How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now)

    For 20 brave men all fishermen who…

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Would make for him the Antelope's crew.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    The Antelope, she was a sickening sight!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    The Antelope sloop was a sickening sight!

    ^[FTFY with affection homie]^

    (How I wish I was in Sherbrooke now!)

    She'd a list to the port and her sails in rags
    And the cook in the scuppers with the staggers and jags!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    One time in high school this girl came up to our lunch table and said "isn't it funny how white people have no culture?" so I looked at the only other white guy at the table and sang the first line to this song, and then he sang back. We had never even discussed it before, lucky guess that he knew it. Everyone else asked wtf that was and I said "oh you wouldn't understand, it's a white people thing".

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    It's not that white people have no culture,

    It's that everything that originated from a predominantly white cultures get labeled either as "colonizer culture" or as a "white supremacist dogwhistle."

    Also, if anyone claims that something is a "white culture thing," then suddenly they're racist.

    If you don't believe me, just show up to a multiculturalism group and try to celebrate Irish culture or mention being proud of your irish heritage. They'll assume that makes you a white supremacist and chase you out.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    Got it, folk songs about labor it is

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die...

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Long haired preachers come out every night, try to tell what's wrong and what's right...

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Check out the Dreadnoughts, fucking amazing Canadian band

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Zajebiscie, Kurwa! Fucking love the Dreadnoughts :)

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I'm lucky enough to have seen them twice, just amazing all around

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    The first time I saw them was at a New Year's Eve show at The Rickshaw in Vancouver. IIRC, they were opening for Ninjaspy, who were friends of mine (could've been the other way around, it was almost 20 years ago). The two bands joined forces to lead the crowd in a midnight singalong of Bohemian Rhapsody.

    I used to go to The Dreadnoughts' annual Punkstravaganza mini festival at The Rickshaw every year, but I moved away a few years ago. Now I only brave the winter drive if they release a new album or if I'm really into one of the openers.

    They're one of my 10-year-old stepkid's favourite bands. I've promised to take her to see them if they're still playing when she turns 19.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Windrose is a pretty good game but the shanty button makes it peak.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    I miss me lass

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This was the best part of playing AC: Black Flag for me.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    No lie, singing shanties with my wife while we're cleaning the kitchen... makes the cleaning wayyy more fun

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago*

    Tires of sea shanties? Might I suggest some land shanties instead?

    https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n-GQcUzZkJlnZVM46fmDlG01Iznbr2ItE

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    A swingin' sword, a skull and bones, and pleasant company

    I never pay my income tax and screw the GST! (Screw it!)

    Sailing down to Saskatoon, the terror of the sea

    If you wanna reach the co-op boy, you gotta get by me!

    Har-har!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Oh a drop of good spiced rum wouldn't do us any harm

    And we'll all hang on behind

    And we'll roll the old Berath's wheel along

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    Leave her Johnny, Leave her.

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    In terms of sea shanties, and I'll be the first to say for a 40 year old my taste in music is.... Eclectic to say the last, but there is a recording out of the 60s that is the quintessential collection of sea shanties and it is absolutely amazing.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    So you're just going to causally mention a quintessential collection of sea shanties without giving any details?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    https://www.discogs.com/release/3385853-Various-Sea-Songs-And-Shanties?srsltid=AU7gw4VeA4mCQLsU39lDupIrYzTn9F63sQ1P3UUTX9U9GPhONbFhOCkp

    Sorry I didn't really feel like doing the leg work but here you go.

    I swear to God I have this vinyl somewhere in my house but I haven't seen it in years and haven't listened to it in years.

    But it is quite quite good if you are able to find a digitized copy of it somewhere or the original which is extremely hard to find nowadays.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Obligatory Trailer Park Boys

    The Kittyman Sea Shanty

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3wEdK_vxw

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    That's a harrrrrrrd no.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    now we are ready to head for the horn

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I just happened to create a "sea" Playlist, mostly consisting of Barrett's Privateers. Thoughts on the flavors:

    • Stan Rogers. Og version. Actually one of my favorite.
    • The Wellermen. Good variety. Changing vocalists and drums add a lot.
    • Kingston Trio. Classic folk band, acapella, I think this is the only other variant I've heard that matches the original lyrics. Would recommend.
    • Jonathan Young. Metal version. I really want to like this, but it is simultaneously both too metal and not metal enough.
    • The Real McKenzies. Love the fast tempo, but I find the change in lyrics extremely annoying.
    • The McCalmans. Change in tempo and change in tune make this unenjoyable.
    • Gustavo Steiner. Sad guy on a guitar. If that's your thing you might enjoy this, otherwise, no.
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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago

    Good list! Ole Stan is the Goat, here's my lubber thoughts, listening:

    Stan: (literally the FUCKING GOAT)

    Wellerman: Too polished, too harmonic, lacking the fuck my life feeling of the song

    Kingston Trio: wayyy too harmonic, too jaunty. Fuck, sing a fun song without a perfect harmony

    Johnathan Young: not all fantastic inspiring songs need to be ballads. It is a great song! But not fitting.

    Real Mckenzies: fantastic "let's FIGHT" vibe

    Alas, alack, I think still Stan!

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    The internet saw one guy’s YouTube video of him doing a 4-part arrangement of Wellerman and now everyfuckingbody thinks they love sea shanties.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I liked sea shanties before they were cool

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Started for me with Muppet Treasure Island, then reinforced with Assassin's Creed Black Flag.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I got into it because of the Aubrey/Maturin novels. They mention a few of them in there and I made a playlist of them.

    Then I created an Irish Rock Pandora station for March and that had a ton more.

    This one is my favorite, but the whole album is a banger

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Thanks for that.

    If you haven't already heard, give Misbehavin' Maidens a whirl. Very fond of Granny's Advice.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I mean, I know what it's like to have "tourists" invading your space after some trend blows up, but there could very much be a new wave of people who have grown to love or enjoy a sea shanty or two now. If people aren't introduced to something, how would they ever know they like it?

    If a person liked a venre enough to make a playlist, I'd say they're enough of a fan. It's like people who are discovering the fun in "classical" (baroque, classical, romantic, etc.) music.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    There once was a ship that put to sea, the name of the ship was the Billy of Tea...

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    Then off to reap the corn, and leave where I was born, I cut a stout black thorn

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Now listen to me. I know it might not be a sea shanty but The rocky road to dublin grabbed me real good, what do ye lads say aboot that? A real stomper if ye ask me!

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    Let me sing you a song boys of fire and flame

    Come me boys and heave with me, let's get of this cursed sea

    Give me a spade and I'll give you a hole

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Maybe switch to a different language, and see if that changes things up. Still a lot of sailing and stabbing though

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  • It's a shame we already have the last shanty

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    "Oh me! Oh my!", I heard me old wife cry! https://youtube.com/watch?v=L-N_0ZnueVY

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    I have suicidal transgenders and suicidal vocaloids (who are also occasionally transgender). Does that help?

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