Musical Interlude; Here's some more classic folk, an olde English sea shanty that's still sung in the mountains here in the U.S.

"The Golden Vanity," performed by Doug and Jack Wallin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIr1GFpPEOY

#MusicalInterlude #DougAndJackWallin #ClassicFolkMusic #SeaShanty

Tuesday Tunes

https://youtu.be/oEpAMm0-kVg?si=_tE1Skl7CVGTHc_h

Lyrics –

I’m through with standing in line to pubs I’ll never get in
It’s like the bottom of the ninth and I’m never gonna win
Life hasn’t turned out quite the way
I want it to be (tell me what you want)
I want a huge sail that’ll hold the squalls
And a big black ship with some cannonballs
Don’t wanna join Davy Jones twenty thousand
Leagues under the sea (so how you gonna do it?)
I’m gonna trade this life for fortune and fame
I’d even roll my bed and change my name, we…
We all just wanna be big rockstars
Live in hilltop houses driving 15 cars
The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap
We all stay skinny ’cause we just won’t eat
And we’ll hang out in the coolest bars
In the VIP’s with the movie stars
Every good gold digger is gonna wind up there
Every Playboy Bunny with her bleached blonde hair
And we’ll hide out in the private rooms
With the latest dictionary and today’s who’s who
They’ll get you anything with that evil smile
Everybody’s got a rum dealer on speed dial
Hey, I wanna be a rockstar
Gonna sing those songs that offend the censors
Singing those songs that offend the censors
Popping my pills from a Pez dispenser (rockstars don’t do mornings)
Get washed up sailors writing all our songs
Get washed up sailors writing all our songs
Lipsync them every night so I don’t get them wrong
We’ll sing them dusk till morning, we
We all just wanna be big rockstars
Live in hilltop houses driving 15 cars
The girls come easy and the drugs come cheap
We’ll all stay skinny ’cause we just won’t eat
And we’ll hang out in the coolest bars
In the VIP’s with the movie stars
Every good gold digger’s gonna wind up there
Every Playboy Bunny with her bleached blonde hair
And we’ll hide out in the private rooms
With the latest dictionary and today’s who’s who
They’ll get you anything with that evil smile
Everybody’s got a rum dealer on speed dial
Hey, I wanna be a rockstar
Everybody’s got a rum dealer on speed dial
Hey, I wanna be a rockstar

My 2 cents –

this one has 2 things going for it…I love sea shanties and nickelback is decent.

Amazing vocals! I get goosebumps!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29l90zcoTBo

#music #seashanty #longestjohns

The (funny) Pirates are back.

#zeekthefreak #zéèk #pirates #humour #seashanty #indiesingersongwriter #indieartist #alternativeartist

https://zeekthefreak.bandcamp.com/track/life-on-the-jolly-buckin-fastbard-2

Yes, we hear that roar from beyond the deep
We have no fear of myth or beast
Brave souls of tar and salt are we
And we'll answer the call of the embedded C.

(apologies to Elle Cordova)

#programming #embedded #SeaShanty

Next time I post this I'm going to have the left hand going too

It's going to be a while 🫠  

#concertina #seaShanty

"He sensed tension between the band members and Guzmán, and he noticed that the individual Sailors seemed to be scraping by."

An excerpt from the new Atavist issue by Peter Ward—about the dark secret of a ShantyTok folk band:

https://longreads.com/2026/03/05/sea-shanty-wales-atavist/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Longreads #Nonfiction #Journalism #Wales #Folk #Music #Slavery #Labor #ShantyTok #SeaShanty