Love Sea Shanties?

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.