MARITIME SONGS – Workshop for Rainy Camp, 2010
Stewart Hendrickson
All of these songs are on Stewart’s web page
[L] = lyrics [pdf] = music score, pdf file
LIVERPOOL BAY [L] [pdf] (Dm) poem by John E. M. Sumner, tune by Stewart Hendrickson, 2002. Sung by Stewart Hendrickson
OLD FIGUREHEAD CARVER [L] [pdf] (D) poem by Hiram Cody, New Brunswick; music and chorus by Dick Swain. Clipper Marco Polo, St. John, New Brunswick, 1851. Recorded by Gordon Bok, Sung by Alestair Brown.
OLD WOODEN BOATS [L] (F) Mickey MacConnell. Video by Mickey MacConnell
NORWAY YAWL [L] (D) Bob McNeil, Glasgow/New Zeeland. Sung by Bob McNeil, Recorded - Ben The Hoose
CLIFFS OF BACCALIEU [L] [pdf] (G) Jack Withers, Newfoundland, 1934. Recorded by Stan Rogers
RANTER’S WHARF [L] [pdf] (G) John Conolly. Recorded by Dick Holdstock
SHEEP DON’T YOU KNOW THE TIDE [L] [pdf] (A) Jonathan Eberhart, from poem by W. H. Davies (1871-1940) Recorded by The Boarding Party
FAREWELL LOVELY NANCY [L] [pdf] (D) Trad. Fare thee well my lovely Nancy. Video by Martin Carthy
GENTLE MAIDS ON SHORE [L] (F) Tom Bliss. Video by Tom Bliss
DUBLIN LADY [L] [pdf] (G) John Conolly. Video by Stewart Hendrickson
QUARE BUNGLE RYE [L] [pdf](D) Trad. Video by Stewart Hendrickson
NEW YORK GALS [L] [pdf] (G) Trad. Recorded on “Victory Sings at Sea”
SILVER DARLINGS [L] [pdf] (D) poem by Bob Halfin, 1970, to a tune by Stewart Hendrickson
SONG OF THE SOCKEYE [L] [pdf] words by W. Ross Cumbers, music by Phil Thomas.
Recorded on "Songs of the Pacific Northwest" Sung by Stewart Hendrickson
THREE FISHERS [L] [pdf] (Bb) words by Charles Kingsley, 1858; music by John Hullah. Disney Video
LIFEBOAT SONG [L] [pdf] (D) (Home From The Sea) words by Phil Coulter,
set to a melody by Stewart Hendrickson
CLIFFS OF MOHER [L] [pdf] (C) by Dermot Kelly for Tina Mulrooney who plays harp
on the Cliffs of Moher in Co. Clare, Ireland. Recorded by Curtis & Loretta
GREAT SILKIE OF SULE SKERRY [L] [pdf] (Dm) Trad, Orkney Islands. See Silkie Folk.
Originally published in The Orcadian (Orkney newspaper), 1934
SOMETIME AT EVE [L] (C) a poem by Elizabeth Clark Hardy, set to music by Brian Pickell
Recorded on “The Brian Pickell Band – Entwined”
CHRISTMAS NIGHT [L] [pdf] (D) a poem by Cicely Fox Smith, tune by Stewart Hendrickson
Sung by Stewart Hendrickson