Roast Beef of Old England

Roast Beef of Old England: Traditional Sailor Songs from Jack Aubrey's Navy

Jerry Bryant is credited on lead vocal, pennywhistle, and bones. Starboard Mess is Eric Bryant, Sheldon Campbell, Peter Constrastano, Cliff Haslam, Geoff Kaudman, Payton Turpin, and Ron Grosslein (fiddle, fife, flute).

This album is themed around Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series of historical fiction books set during the Napoleonic Wars. Thirteen of the songs are cited in the books, and the other 11 have historical backing that would place them near the early 1800s.

Tracklist:

1. Spanish Ladies
2. A Jolly Sailor's True Description of a Man-of-War
3. Adieu, Sweet Lovely Nancy
4. St. Patrick's Day
5. Warlike Seamen
6. The First of June
7. Drops of Brandy
8. Roast Beef of Old England
9. Heart of Oak
10. Nancy Dawson
11. Ben Backstay
12. Sailor's Hornpipe/Rickett's Hornpipe
13. Bay of Biscay-o
14. The Battle of the Nile
15. Nelson's Victory/Hull's Victory
16. The Banks of the Nile/Sailor's Cravat
17. A New Sea Song (Sweethearts and Wives)
18. Pleasant and Delightful
19. Captain Barton's Distress on the Lichfield
20. Chevy Chast
21. The Shannon and the Chesapeake
22. Distressed Men-of-War
23. Sailor's Jacket
24. Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate