Originally published as Shantymen and Shantyboys in 1951. A comprehensive collection of American maritime and logging folk songs, containing short-haul shanties, halyard shanties, capstan/windlass/pump shanties, forecastle ballads, and lumberman songs. Doerflinger’s work stands with Hugill’s for its range and scholarship.

Contents:

  1. “Bust or Break or Bend Her”: Short-Haul Shanties
  2. “Up Aloft That Yard Must Go”: Halyard Shanties
  3. “Heavy Away”: Capstan, Windlass, and Pump Shanties
  4. The Rise of Shantying
  5. Deep-Water Songs
  6. Ballads of the Fishing Banks
  7. Forecastle Songs of the West Indies Trade
  8. The Shantyboys’ Life
  9. Satirists of the Sawdust Country
  10. Ballads of Bold Adventure
  11. Minstrelsy of Murder
  12. The Banks of the Roses: Romantic Ballads and Love Songs