'ORROR UPON 'ORRORS 'EAD

SYDNEY PUNCH JULY 17. 1869 (TUNE: THE CORK LEG'
first line: A story I'll tell without any fear

In this next song, a familiar sailor story, yet unusual to find in Australia, our 'Jack' is led astray. The P.C. refers to the Police Court.

Jack Ashore Air: Derry Down

Joseph Bradley sailed to Australia on the 'Lynx', an active whaling ship. It is mentioned that the crew sang this song on the voyage.

The Neglected Tar ADVENTURES OF A NATIVE OF AUSTRALIA Joseph Bradley C 1860 Mitchell.

There seems to be many sentimental songs about saving ones mate ñ some came from the goldrushes like 'Mines Of Australia' and this one is set in a shipwreck.

Shipmates Australian Melodist No 20 Mitchell library 784.8/A

Ship's Departure

Composed on Capt Phillips departure with the first fleet and published in the Whitehall Evening Post


They go off to an island to take special charge
Much warmer than Britain and ten times as large
No custom-house duties, no freight to pay
And tax free they'll live when at Botany Bay

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SEA SHANTIES SUNG OF THE SS NORTHUMBERLAND

During a voyage to Melbourne 1882
From 'Back Country' or the Cheerful Adventures of a bush parson in the eighties' J W Eisdell. 1936

Dead Horse

Old Dad

Blow the Man Down

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The following song is a version of 'Queer Bungle Rye' and a familiar story for sailors ashore.

Bung Your Eye

Two shanty fragments as sung on the sailing ships bringing gold seekers to Sydney in the 1850s. Found in Adventures on the Australian Gold Fields - W Craig. 1903

Pumping Shanty

Oh fare you well, my own Mary Anne
Fare you well for awhile.

Anchor Hauling Shanty

When first we went a-waggoning
Drive on my lads, heigh ho.

When Jones' Ale Was New Hope Yarns, Marlin Spikes & Tar W E Dexter 1938 (Tune: When Jones' Ale Was New)

Shanghai Brown

A shanty indicated as sung on the Australian/London route.
Morn Of Youth
Robert S Close
1949
(Tune: Shallow Brown)
Shanghai Brown has gone aloft
On the royal mainyard you'll find him
In a split tailed coat buttoned up to his throat
And his spit kid hanging behind him.


Broadside pasted in front of ship's log book.
The barque 'Duchess of Northumberland (1850-1888) under Captain George Mitchell.
The broadside was printed by Walker of Durham, UK.

The Sailor's Farewell

This is a classic sea song. This version is not in either the Hugh Anderson or Ron Edwards collections And is different from the Peter Kennedy UK version.

Lovely Nancy Broadside circa 1850-1888 Printed Walker of Durham, England. Coupled with The Sailor's Farewell.

Excursions & Adventures in NSW

Capt Henderson 78th Highlanders
London Vole 1 & 2
1854
DSM/981/37B Vols. 1 & 2

Being a Guide to Emigrants.
On the ship Fortune from Scotland to Sydney.
Note that this is an extract from a large book and interested readers should refer to the 'Emigration' section where additional Capt Henderson material can be found including his version of The Immigrant's Lament'

This being Saturday night we had a merry party in the cuddy to drink the usual toast of 'sweethearts and wives'. As it was the first convivial meeting of the kind, it was kept up with spirit, and many a good song was sung, not forgetting the appropriate one ending with the lines ñ

    Now we sail with the gale,
     From the Bay of Biscay-O

There being eight or ten bachelors among us, besides tow or three very merry Benedict's, the party did not break up till a late hour, after coming to the resolution of repeating the performance hebdomadally. The following song, a joint composition arising out of the proceedings of this evening, and sung at the succeeding Saturday night's merry-making, may not be unacceptable, as showing that there may be some fun on board ship to while away the time during so long a voyage ñ

Shipboard Laird

The Captain was a pleasant little man enough, and wore a fiery red tartan cloak in rough weather. He could sing too: but he was a man of one song, and that song was, 'The Hapless Cabin Boy' performed regularly every Saturday night in a sentimental manner to a right melancholy air; and for this reason, he generally obtained the sobriquet of the 'Hapless Cabin Boy.'

The Wonderful Crocodile

I first came across this song in a Bush Music Club songbook and started to sing it ten years later. I recorded a version on 'Limejuice and Vinegar' (EMI and later reissued Larrikin). Kids love this story and so do I. I love the mention of la Perouse and was delighted to see it in print.