Right after New Year's, we went with our friend Don to a new Meetup.com group devoted to singing sea shanties. That sounded like fun, and it was. Rhythmic call and response tunes with interesting history behind them.
We weren't able to make the next meetup, but Darling Wife suggested to a few friends that we could have an informal sea shanty sing in our house, and the idea quickly met with approval and spread. We invited our musical friends, and everyone seemed excited.
Our intention was to make it a little lighter in atmosphere than the meetup - there were a few people there who had very rigid ideas about what constituted a sea shanty, and what didn't. Our idea was that everyone would bring a few nautically-themed songs (or drinking songs...they seem to go hand in hand) that would be fun to play and sing, and we'd get together and have a good time.
And that's exactly what happened yesterday. There were a couple of last-minute cancellations, but a fun and friendly group convened at 3:00, and we played and sang until 6:00.
Here are the songs we brought:
Very fun afternoon, and we hope to be able to do it again.
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