Playlist
Reference recordings for every song
Public-domain shanty recordings play offline from the bundled audio library. Copyrighted modern arrangements stream from official artist channels with attribution — YouTube embeds use the privacy-enhanced domain (no tracking cookies until you press play).
Plays through every song in order. Skips automatically past anything that becomes unavailable. Click any track in the queue to jump to it.
Queue · 28 tracks
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- 01 Barrett's Privateers Stan Rogers
- 02 Bully in the Alley Traditional
- 03 C'est l'aviron Traditional French-Canadian (voyageur)
- 04 Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate Traditional
- 05 Drunken Sailor Traditional
- 06 Haul Away Joe Traditional
- 07 Haul on the Bowline Traditional
- 08 I'se the B'y Traditional (Newfoundland)
- 09 Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor Traditional Newfoundland (adapted from John Read, 1878)
- 10 Jean-François de Nantes Traditional Breton / French maritime
- 11 John Kanaka Trad shanty (Pacific / Hawaiian work-song origin, 19th c.)
- 12 Leave Her, Johnny Traditional
- 13 Lots of Fish in Bonavist' Harbour Traditional Newfoundland
- 14 The Mary Ellen Carter Stan Rogers
- 15 Nautical Disaster The Tragically Hip
- 16 Northwest Passage Stan Rogers
- 17 Roll the Old Chariot Traditional
- 18 Rolling Down to Old Maui Traditional
- 19 The Sailor's Alphabet Traditional
- 20 Santiano Hugues Aufray
- 21 She's Like the Swallow Traditional Newfoundland
- 22 South Australia Traditional
- 23 The Irish Rover Trad (Irish; popularised by The Dubliners/Pogues 1987 collaboration)
- 24 The Mermaid Trad (English/Irish, Roud 124, Child 289; 18th c.)
- 25 The Old Polina Trad (Newfoundland / Dundee whaling, 19th c.)
- 26 Wellerman Traditional (New Zealand)
- 27 Whiskey in the Jar Traditional Irish
- 28 Wild Mountain Thyme Traditional Scottish/Irish
