Posted by MikeB on September 12, 2011 at 10:21:38 user BerkScouse.
In Reply to: Re: Swallows and Shanties posted by Duncan on September 12, 2011 at 04:39:13:
Although 4o years too late, as far as authentic shanties were concerned, I learned some wonderful shanties listening to the "Spinners" at Gregson's Well Pub in Liverpool, live every thursday night in the 60's. Cliff contributed some memorable West Indian equivalents (check out "colon man a'come"). And then there were all those mariner-originated Liverpool songs (e.g. "It's not the leaving of Liverpool...." etc etc)