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In addition to the song list below, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park’s “Chantey Pathfinder” contains a rich body of music recordings, books, journal articles, and favorites from song leader Peter Kasin who is a retired park ranger at the SF Maritime National Historical Park.


Note: Monthly lists reflect titles provided to us by singers in advance of virtual sings and may not include all songs.

Song List By Month

February 2024:

1.Larry Marr
2. Sheila Ewall
3. Old Maui
4. Old Monomoy
5. The Library Shanty
6. Let the Bulgine Run
7. All For Me Grog
8. Greenland Bound
9. Six Horsepower Coker
10. Whaler’s Tale
11. Away, Susannah!
12. Shallow Brown
13. John Kanaka
14. Off to Sea Once More

January 2024:

1. Morlaix Bridge
2. Bold Benjamin
3. Paddy West
4. The Gallant Frigate Amphitrite
5. Reuben Ranzo
6. The Fisherman
7. Henry Martin
8. Roll Down
9. Braw Sailing
10. Dark-Eyed Sailor
11. Frobisher Bay
12. Brandy-O
13. Throw Out the Lifeline
14. Rio Grande
15. The Storms Are On The Ocean
16. Roll the Woodpile
17. Rolling Down to Old “Meowee” (lyrics)
18. Come Down Below You Pretty Girls
19. Strike the Bell
20. Round the Corner Sally

December 2023:

1. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank
2. I Saw 3 Ships
3. Willie Shall Dance
4. Seasons at Sea
5. Mama Liza Jane
6. Haul on the Bowline
7. Row On
8. Maid of Amsterdam
9. I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In
10. Little Sally Racket
11. The Campanero
12. Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake
13. Christmas Shanty
14. The Sailors Christmas Day
15. The Library Chantey
16. Blood Red Roses

November 2023:

*The virtual chantey sing was on hiatus October 2023. November’s sing was in honor of, and a memorial, for musician and singer Dan Milner.
1. The Crabfish
2. Billy O’Shea
3. The Dreadnaught
4. Fair Winds and a Following Sea
5. Davey Cross
6. McNally’s Row of Flats
7. Dunlavin Green
8. One More Day
9. Shoals of Herring
10. Run, Let the Bulgine Run
11. Tom Bowling
12. Think of Me
13. The Five Gallon Jar
14. Old Moke Picking On A Banjo
15. Across The Western Ocean
16. Mr. Tapscott
17. The Parting Glass
18.  Molly Malone
19.  Haul On The Bowline
20. South Australia
21. Ten Thousand Miles Away
22. Crossing the Bar
23. The River Lea
24. Lowlands
25. Frankie’s Trade
26. Go To Sea No More
27. This World of Misery (Seven Long Years)
28. General Taylor
29. The Minstrel Boy
30. Deep Blue Sea
31. I Wish We’d Sailed on the Jeanie Johnston
32. Chanteyman Gone Aloft
33. Paddy West
34. Mingulay Boat Song
35. Billy O’Shea
36. Morlaix Bridge
37. Ranzo Ray
38. Leaving of Liverpool

September 2023:

1. Goodbye Old Ship of Mine
2. Three Fishers
3. Harbors of Home
4. Way Down in Dixie
5. Shiny O
6. Not With Your Hands
7. Anti Shanty
8. The Old Moke Pickin’ on a Banjo
9. Row, Me Bully Boys, Row
10. Nipper
11. Won’t You Help Me to Raise ‘Em
12. Randy Dandy O
13. New York Girls
14. Hardi les Gars
15. Jump Isabel Jump
16. Tavern Down by the Harbor
17. The Sailor’s Alphabet
18. Row On
19. Yo Ho, Little Fishy
20. The Oak, and the Ash, and the Bonny Ivy Tree
21. Haul Away for Rosie
22. The Diamond
23. Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy
24. Cheer’ly Man
25. Bounty Was a Packet Ship

August 2023:

1. C’est Aviron
2. The Blackball Line
3. Laying Up Silver (Comp. Andrew McKay)
4. The Ebenezer
5. Time Ashore is Over
6. The Grey Funnel Line (Comp. Cyril Tawney)
7. A Sailor Home from Sea
8. A Sailor’s Way
9. Spanish Ladies
10. Paddy Lay Back
11. General Taylor
12. Sandy Anna
13. Three Score and Ten
14. Pleasant and Delightful
15. Sloppy Old Sloop
16. Cannery Shed (Comp.Mary Garvey)
17. Hieland Laddie
18. I’se the By
19. The Good Ship Kangaroo
20. Blood Red Roses

July 2023:

1. Aboard the Rosabella
2. Shallow Brown
3. Farewell to Nova Scotia
4. Northwest Passage
5. Heave Away Boys
6. Pay Me My Money Down
7. Heave ‘er Up and Bust ‘er
8. Saltpetre Shanty
9. Oh, California!
10. Nothin’ But a Humbug
11. Yankee Privateer
12. Hurrah, Sing Fare You Well
13. John Riley
14. Classic Yankee Clipper
15. Lowlands Away
16. Ben Backstay
17. South Australia
18. Willie Taylor
19. The Herring Song
20. 10,000 Miles
21. Greenland Whale Fisheries
22. Rosario (Anchor Shanty)
23. The Maid of Amsterdam
24. Frisco Ship
25. Bully in the Alley
26. Load ‘em and Stack ‘em
27. Hurry that to Cargo Down

June 2023:

1. Haul Away, Joe
2. Bold Riley
3. All the Salt
4. Tommy’s Gone to Hilo
5. Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still
6. Hawaii Humpbacks
7. Won’t You Go My Way
8. Barracks Street
9. Capstan Bar
10. Sacramento
11. The Victory
12. Farewell to Tarwathie
13. Hanging Johnny
14. Adieu Sweet lovely Nancy
15. Caledonia
16. Song of the Fugitive
17. So Haul Away
18. Padstow Farewell
19. Our Ship is Ready / The Emigrant’s Farewell
20. Five Gallon Jar
21. A-Roving
22. Three Score and Ten
23. My Johnny’s Gone to Hilo
24. The Rambling Sailor
25. Oh California
26. Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shore

May 2023:

1. Hell of a Wedding
2. The Coast of Peru
3. Tide Rising
4. The Herring is King of the Sea
5. Liverpool Packet
6. Amelia
7. The Sailor’s Alphabet
8. The Grey Funnel Line
9. John Dead
10. Horizons
11. Sacramento
12. Randy-Dandy-O
13. Mollymawk
14. Blood Red Roses
15. Drinking That Wine
16. Off to Sea Once More
17. The Diamond
18. Fifty Years a Sailor
19. Reuben Ranzo

April 2023:

1. Liverpool Packet
2. Walloping Window Blind
3. The Titanic
4. Bound for Australia
5. The Derby Ram
6. One More Day
7. Come Down Below You Pretty Girls or Good Morning Ladies All
8. Rolling Home
9. La Grande Peche Baliniere
10. The Coast of Peru
11. Do Let Me Lone, Susan
12. Hawaii Humpbacks
13. Captain Sully on the Hudson, words by Joyce Cockerham
14. The Call of the Cadborosaurus
15. Tommy’s Gone to Hilo
16. Ben Backstay was our boatswain

March 2023:

1. Blow the Candles Out
2. Santiano
3. Stormalong John
4. Shenandoah
5. Hob Y Deri Dando
6. Whaling Johnny
7. Windy ‘Ol Weather
8. The Anglesey
9. The Harp Without the Crown
10. The Leaving of Liverpool
11. Quare Bungle Rye
12. Wings of a Gull
13. The Connecticut Whaler
14. The Rosabella
15. My Johnny’s Gone to Hilo
16. Farewell to Nova Scotia
17. The Skye Boat Song
18. Rowing Down to Old Maui
19. Row On
20. A Shantyman Gone Aloft
21. River Drivers
22. Morrissey and the Russian Sailor
23. Whiskey Johnny
24. Billy Boy
25. Way, Hey, Roll and Go
26. Bring ‘Em Down
27. Paddy Lay Back
28. Reuben Ranzo
29. Song of the Whales
30. Sailortown

February 2023:

1. Highland Lassie, Bonnie Lassie
2. The Mermaid
3. Fiddlers Green
4. The Bold and Daring Skin Diver
5. Bank Trollers
6. Sugar in the Hold
7. Haul the Bowline
8. The Fisher Who Died in His Bed
9. John Bully
10. The Victory
11. Strike The Bell
12. Jolly Roving Tar
13. Bully in the Alley
14. The Eddystone Light
15. The Final Trawl
16. Leavin of Liverpool
17. Where am I to Go, Me Johnnies
18. Bay of Biscay
19. Come Down Below, You Pretty Girls
20. The Library Chantey

January 2023:

1. Come All Ye Tonguers
2. Bold Riley
3. Windy Old Weather
4. Mother Carey
5. My Mother Told Me
6. Poor Paddy Works on the Railway
7. Le Capitaine du St. Malo
8. Maid of Amersterdam
9. Tiny Fish for Japan
10. The Mary Ellen Carter
11. Time to Say Goodbye
12. Here’s Health to the Company
13. Johnny Come Down to Hilo
14. One More Day
15. Le Corsaire le Grande Couruer
16. Shallow Brown
17. Shove the Grog Around
18. Crossing the Bar
19. Polly Poppin’s Gone to Sea

November 2022:

1. A Jug of This
2. Ben Kenobi
3. Bold Riley
4. Brassons Bien Partout Carre
5. Chandler’s Wife
6. Donkey Riding
7. Fisherman’s Farewell
8. Hilo Johnny Hilo
9. Randy Dandy O
10. Roll Boys Roll
11. Roll the Woodpile Down
12. Santiano, or A La Rochelle
13. Seasons at Sea
14. Skipper Jan Rebeck
15. The Rose in June
16. What Does the Deep Sea Say
17. Whiskey Johnny
18. William Taylor

October 2022:

1. Capstan Bar
2. Challow Brown
3. Cockles and Mussels
4. Deadman’s Chest
5. Ghostly Seamen
6. Halarvisa
7. I Love the Ocean
8. One More Day
9. Ranzo Ray
10. The Fisherman’s Song
11. The Kangaroo
12. The Wellerman

September 2022:

1. Agamemnon
2. Astoria’s Bar
3. Barrack’s Street
4. Ben Backstay
5. Boney
6. C’est l’Aviron Qui Nous Mène
7. Fire Maringo
8. High and Dry
9. Leave Her, Johnny
10. My Johnny’s Gone to Hilo
11. Off to Sea Once More
12. Old Maui
13. Roll The Old Chariot Along
14. Roller Bowler
15. Serons Nous Toujours En Tristesse
16. Spanish Ladies
17. The Gustav
18. The Jeannie C
19. The Mary Ellen Carter
20. The Pale Stranger
21. When I Was a Fair Maid

August 2022:

1. Am Bratach Bana (The White Banner)
2. Cape Cod Girls
3. Cape St. Mary’s
4. Clear the Track, Let the Bulgine Run
5. Craigie Hill
6. De IJzeren Man
7. Handy M’Boys So Handy
8. I Wish We Sailed on the Jeanie Johnston
9. Last Watch
10. Le Corsaire Le Grand Coureur
11. Leave Her, Johnny
12. One More Day
13. Partons, La Mer Est Belle
14. Randy Dandy O
15. Rolling Down to Old Maui
16. Sammy’s Bar
17. Shanghaied
18. Shenandoah
19. Shiny O
20. Standing on the Shore
21. The Erie Canal
22. The Weary Whaling Grounds
23. Three Score and Ten

June 2022:

1. A Ripping Trip
2. A-Roving
3. Billy Boy
4. Gum Tree Canoe
5. Jolly Roving Tar
6. Le corsair ‘Le Grand Coureur’ – The Privateer ‘Racer’
7. Old Jim Jones
8. Row On
9. Sheol Am Bata (The Ship Sailed)
10. Still Sage on Shore
11. Strike the Bell
12. The Bonnie Wee Lassie’s Answer
13. The Mermaid’s Song
14. The Sailboat Malarkey
15. The Sailor’s Grave
16. The Ward Line
17. The Worst Old Ship

May 2022:

1. Bring ‘Em Down
2. Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmates
3. Hawaii Humpbacks
4. Rockin Rollin Home
5. Running Down to Cuba
6. Sacramento
7. Son of Mine
8. Strike the Bell
9. The French Privateer “Racer”
10. The Gal in Portland Street

April 2022:

1. Columbo
2. Craigie Hill
3. Dan Dan
4. Longshoremen’s Strike
5. Pumping Shanty
6. Rollin’ Home
7. Sail Away Ladies
8. The Campanero

March 2022:

1. Aree Are We’re Sailing
2. Barack Street
3. Billy O’Shea
4. Follow the Heron Home
5. Johanna and Rhody
6. Off to California
7. Pay Me My Money Down
8. Rolling King
9. Round #318
10. Sail Cyber Seas
11. Sea Legs, Boots, Tarpaulin
12. Season’s at Sea
13. Shoals of Herring
14. Ten Stone
15. The Ebenezer
16. The Harp Without the Crown
17. Tow Rope Girls
18. Whiskey Johnny

February 2022:

1. Blackbird Get Up
2. Coast of High Barbary
3. Diesel and Shale
4. Down the River of Gambia
5. Fisherboy
6. Health to the Company
7. Hieland Laddie
8. I Love the Ocean
9. Mail Day
10. Mama Wind
11. Navigator Lady
12. Ocean Station Bravo
13. Old Zeb
14. One More Day
15. Riley
16. Row On
17. Row, Michael Row
18. Sail O Believer
19. Ten Thousand Miles
20. The Bold and Daring Skin Diver
21. The Dreadnought
22. The Flying Cloud
23. The Widowmaker
24. Time Ashore is Over
25. Young Johnny

January 2022:

1. Blow, Boys, Blow
2. Hello, Somebody
3. Homeward Bound
4. One More Day
5. Polly Poppin’s Gone to Sea
6. S’truagh Nach do Dh’fhuirich mi Tioram Air Tir
7. Sea Glass
8. Skipper Jan Rebek
9. Soon May the Wellerman Come
10. The Girls of Dublin Town
11. The Maid of Amsterdam
12. The Mary Ellen Carter
13. The Ship in Distress
14. The Sun, Rum, and Rain

August 2021:

1. Across the Western Ocean
2. Bounty Was a Packet Ship
3. Shadow Boats
4. The Mermaid

July 2021:

1. A Matelot’s Farewell to His Tot
2. A Year on a Blubber Hunter
3. All At Sea
4. Billy O’Shea
5. Blow Away the Morning Dew
6. Bright Star
7. Liverpool Judies
8. One More Day
9. Pique La Baleine
10. Sail Away
11. Storm Cones
12. The Big Five Gallon Jar
13. The Ship in Distress

June 2021:

1. Carrying Nelson Home
2. Farewell to Kingsbridge
3. Harriet Lane
4. Ibo Girl
5. Leave Her, Johnny
6. Pay Me My Money Down
7. Roll, Alabama, Roll
8. Sammy’s Bar
9. Take Yo’ Time
10. Tally I O
11. Tom’s Gone to Hilo

May 2021:

1. Benbow
2. Fare Thee Well
3. From Erin’s Shores
4. Hanging Johnny
5. Haul Away for Rosie O
6. Heave Her Up and Bust Her, or Haul Away, Joe
7. Hurry That Cargo Down
8. I’se the B’y
9. I’ve Got Sixpence
10. Larry Marr
11. Mingulay Boat Song
12. My Johnny’s Gone to Hilo
13. Ned’s Lament
14. Root Hog or Die
15. Sailortown
16. Sea Between Our Hearts
17. So Near and Yet So Far
18. Tarpaulin Jacket
19. Tell the Devil’s Tale
20. The Brazos River Song
21. The Carmagnole
22. The Handsome Cabin Boy
23. Topman and the Afterguard
24. Walloping Window Blind