Fishing Songs
25 songs
The songs of this category are often associated with specific fishing communities. Some were sung on the docks, some in small vessels, and some by the “herring girls” gutting and packing fish along the English shores.
The work did not require the coordination of raising sails and anchors, but the musical customs associated with fishing may indeed be older than most other sailing song traditions.
Songs (25)
- A Trip to the Grand Banks
- Allen Die Villen Naar Island
- Brindisi di Marinai
- Canso Strait
- Cantu À Timùni
- E Amòla
- Fischerlied
- Help Me to Raise 'Em
- Kaigara Bushi
- Mingulay Boat Song
- No More Fish, No Fishermen
- Song of Chinese Rowers
- Sōran Bushi
- The Adventure of the Scupper Nails
- The Boston Come-All-Ye
- The Final Trawl
- The Gale of August, '27
- The Ghostly Crew
- The Herring Gutter's Song
- The Loss of the Cedar Grove
- The Pursuit of the Tiger
- The Sailboat Malarkey
- The Spring Trip of the Schooner Ambition
- The Wreck of the Mary P. Mesquita
- Three Score and Ten