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Mainsail Café / Songs / Categories / Modern Songs

Modern Songs

27 songs

Retirement Song
Anne Louise
Men I've Known and Killed
Captain's Daughter
Bones in the Ocean
Under the Southern Cross
The Losing of the Whale
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
A Sailor Ain't a Sailor
Tons of Sharks
No More Fish, No Fishermen
Chicken on a Raft
Auckland to the Bluff
The Yangtze River Shanty
Carrying Nelson Home
The Shellback Song
Pump Shanty
On a Monday Morning
Haul on the Anchor Chain
Old Fid
Northwest Passage
The Fishermen's Song
A Sailor's Prayer
Grey Funnel Line
The Final Trawl
The Old Black Pearl
The Ways of Man

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.

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