Modern Sea Songs
30 songs
These songs are markedly newer but they were deemed notable nonetheless. Although the words never left the lips of an old-time sailor, they’ve found their way into the annals of maritime music.
This category includes modern songs emulating shanties, commercial folk songs, parodies, tributes, etc.
Songs (30)
- A Sailor Ain't a Sailor
- A Sailor's Prayer
- Anne Louise
- Auckland to the Bluff
- Barrett's Privateers
- Bones in the Ocean
- Captain's Daughter
- Carrying Nelson Home
- Chicken on a Raft
- Haul on the Anchor Chain
- Men I've Known and Killed
- No More Fish, No Fishermen
- Northwest Passage
- Old Fid
- Old Wooden Bars
- On a Monday Morning
- Pump Shanty
- Retirement Song
- The Final Trawl
- The Fishermen's Song
- The Grey Funnel Line
- The Losing of the Whale
- The Old Black Pearl
- The Shellback Song
- The Ways of Man
- The Yangtze River Shanty
- Three Score and Ten
- Tons of Sharks
- Under the Southern Cross
- Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald