Love Sea Shanties?
We've hauled up some great books and CDs for you
If you've been swept away by the viral popularity of 19th century sea shanties on TikTok, then we have some mighty good items in our collections for you.
Books*
Real Sailor-songs - John Ashton
Sailors' Songs and Shanties - Michael Hurd
Shanties and Sailors' Songs - Stan Hugill
Ships, Sea Songs and Shanties (1910) - W.B Whall
Music Scores*
Songs Under Sail: A book of sailor shanties - Peter Heaton
Sea Shanties (1934) - William G. James
The Seven Seas Shanty Book: containing 42 sea shanties & songs (1927) - John Sampson
The Shanty Book - Sir Richard Runciman Terry
Everyman's Book of Sea Songs - Richard Baker
Songs of the Sea: the tales and tunes of sailors and sailing ships - Stan Hugill
CDs
Now That's What I Call Sea Shanties vol. 2 - Wellington Sea Shanty Society
One and All - Fisherman's Friends
Son of Rogues Gallery: pirate ballads, sea songs & chanteys
*Please note, some of these books are held in our stack collections at the City Library. Just ask at the first floor helpdesk and our staff will happily to retrieve them for you.