DRUNKEN SAILOR Sea Shanty by The Irish Rovers

LEARN a SHANTY How to Sing Sea Shanties 1 SHANTY BLOG 1 Brian of Holcombe Brilliant version of this classic Sea shanty Drunken Sailor by The Irish Rovers. Video images selected by Brian of Holcombe for your maritime delights. In association with the Shanty Men of Devon. As a shanty The first published description of the shanty is found in an account of an 1839 whaling voyage out of New London, Connecticut to the Pacific It was used as an example of a song that was performed with very good effect when there is a long line of men hauling together Pronunciation of early The word early is often pronounced as, ˈɜːrlaɪ, URLeye in modern performances. Publications in the 19th and early 20th century, however, did not note this was the case. Neither the field recordings of Richard Maitland by Alan Lomax (1939) nor those of several veteran sailors in Brit