A collection of American maritime worksongs, published as a limited edition in 1960s. Work includes musical notations, illustrations. Glenn Grasso gives the introduction to the Mystic Seaport reprint.

Frederick Pease Harlow (1856-1952) was an American sailor and author. The Making of a Sailor (Salem Research Society, 1928) is the narrative of his two inaugural voyages, first along the coast of New England in 1872 and later to the Far East in the Boston ship Akbar. His collection Chanteying Aboard American Ships (Barre, Mass.: Barre Press, 1962) is based on his lifetime of deepwater experience. It was posthumously published at the insistence and under the guidance of Ernest Dodge of the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts.

The Chantey

  1. We’re All Surrounded
  2. A Short Cry or Sing Out
  3. Weather Main Brace
  4. Topsail Halliards
  5. A Walk Away
  6. Calling the Watch

Chanteying on the Akbar

  1. Heave Away My Johnnies (We’re All Bound to Go)
  2. Heave Away My Johnnies (II)
  3. Clear the Track, Let the Bulgine Run
  4. Handsome Charlie’s Sing Out
  5. Whiskey
  6. Hauling in the Slack of the Foresheet
  7. The Drunken Sailor (Up She Rises)
  8. John François (Boney Was a Warrior)
  9. A Sing Out
  10. Paddy Doyle and His Boots
  11. South Australia
  12. Golden Vanitee
  13. Can’t You Dance the Polka
  14. Santy
  15. Santa Ana (On the Plains of Mexico)
  16. One More Day
  17. Heave Away Cheerily
  18. Hanging Johnny
  19. A-Roving (The Maid of Amsterdam)
  20. A-Roving (II)
  21. The Sailor’s Alphabet
  22. The Hog-Eye Man
  23. Christopher Columbus
  24. Across the Western Ocean
  25. A Long Time Ago
  26. A Long Time Ago (II)
  27. A Long Time Ago (III)
  28. Whiskey (II)
  29. Whiskey (III)
  30. Blow Boys Blow
  31. Poor Old Man
  32. The Dead Horse
  33. A Fal-De-Lal-Day
  34. Riding on a Donkey
  35. Tommy’s Gone to Hilo
  36. Short Drag
  37. Haul Away, Joe
  38. Storm Along John
  39. Storm Along John (II)
  40. Storm Along John (III)
  41. Stormy
  42. Stormy (II)
  43. Old Stormy
  44. Poor Old Joe
  45. Sun Down Below
  46. Mobile Bay
  47. Way Sing Sally
  48. Hilo, My Ranzo Way
  49. Reuben Ranzo
  50. Blow the Man Down
  51. Blow the Man Down (II)
  52. Haul the Bowline
  53. Johnny Boker
  54. Slapander-Gosheka
  55. Leave Her Johnny, Leave Her
  56. Cruise of the Dreadnaught
  57. The Black Ball Line
  58. The Black Ball Line (II)
  59. Johnny Get Your Oatcake Done (Jamboree)
  60. Early in the Morning
  61. Banks of Sacramento
  62. Rio Grande
  63. Shenandoah
  64. From Surabaya to Pasoeroean
  65. Ten Thousand Miles Away
  66. Homeward Bound (Good-bye, Fare You Well)
  67. Sally Brown (Roll and Go)
  68. Far Down Below
  69. Far Down Below (II)
  70. Shallow Brown
  71. Lowlands
  72. Blow Ye Winds in the Morning
  73. The Merman
  74. Rolling Home
  75. Rolling Home (II)
  76. Outward Bound
  77. Oh, Poor Paddy Works on the Railway
  78. So Handy, My Boys, So Handy
  79. I Love the Blue Mountains
  80. Roll the Cotton Down
  81. Song of the Fishes
  82. The Mermaid
  83. A Hundred Years Ago

Chanties and Sea Songs

  1. Boston
  2. The Bo’sun’s Story
  3. Nancy Lee
  4. High Barbary
  5. Along the Lowland
  6. Barnacle Bill the Sailor
  7. The Priest and the Nuns
  8. Do Me Ama
  9. Adieu to Maimuna
  10. Let Go the Reefy Tackle
  11. Japanese Short Drag
  12. The Pirate of the Isle
  13. Married to a Mermaid
  14. The Yankee Man-of-War
  15. The Yankee Man-of-War (II)
  16. The Ship Lord Wolseley
  17. The Constitution and the Guerriere
  18. Shannon and Chesapeake
  19. Yankee Tars
  20. Nantucket P’int
  21. The Nantucket Skipper
  22. The Fate of the Nancy Bell
  23. The Barber Song
  24. The Liverpool Girl
  25. John, John Crow
  26. Gwine to Git a Home Bime By
  27. Lindy Lowe
  28. The Darky Sunday School
  29. Dixie’s Isle
  30. Aboard the Henry Clay

Whaling Songs

  1. It’s Advertised in Boston
  2. ‘Twas a Love of Adventure
  3. A House on the Mountain Wave
  4. Old Nantucket Whaling Song
  5. Edgartown Whaling Song
  6. The Coast of Peru
  7. The Whale
  8. The Greenland Whale
  9. The Horn of the Hiram Q
  10. Rolling Down
  11. Down to Old Maui
  12. Baffin’s Bay
  13. The Whalemen’s Wives