What's some good nautical-sounding music?

Question

That I could get the sheets for? I'm performing at a pirate-themed street fair soon and need some ideas. Thanks!

Answer 1

the music of Canada, especially around Prince Edward Island, has a lot of sea faring music. Check out Stan Rogers - Barret's Privateers, Home in the Harbor, Make or Break Harbor, and The Mary Ellen Carter.

Gordon Bok is another artist you might give a listen to. Try Peter Kagen and the Wind, Little Fishy, Get her into shore, Old Fat Boat, Turning Towards the Morning, and the final Trawl.

I stuck a few links below including a couple that list some old sea chanteys you might find useful. Hope This Helps

Answer 2

Sea Shanties
Sea shanties were shipboard working songs. All though the "days of the tall ships" are over, the shanty song style is still used for new musical compositions. Well known examples include the Stan Rogers song, "Barrett's Privateers," the Steve Goodman song, "Lincoln Park Pirates," and the theme song for the television show SpongeBob Squarepants (a version of "Blow the Man Down").

http://parlorsongs.com/insearch/seasongs/shanties.asp

http://artfuljesus.0catch.com/Repertoire/pirates.html

Lighthouse's Tale (Nickel Creek)
Boats to Build (Guy Clark)
Boat Drinks (Jimmy Buffett)
I Saw Three Ships (STING)
What shall we do with the drunken sailor?, by Irish Rovers
Sailing (Rod Stewart)
Gilligan's Island Theme
Southern Cross - by Crosby Stills and Nash
I'm Your Captain - by Grand Funk
A Salty Dog - by Procol Harum
Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald - by Gordon Lightfoot
Brandy (Your a Fine Girl) - by Looking Glass

Answer 3

If you are singing, how about trying some old time sea shanties? If you can find an old CD by Burl Ives, he did a couple which were full of sailing songs and shanties. Some CD stores have sections for world music which have selections of sea shanties. You probably know a lot of them (What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor, Haul Away Joe, The Golden Vanity, Jack was Every Inch A Sailor, Blow the Man Down).
These are songs that are fun to sing, and everyone will know them and like them.
Hat's off to everyone who mentioned Stan Rogers. He is tremendous and wrote lot of sea songs. One that I love is "Cliffs of Baccalieu"
which is on his "For the Family " album.

Answer 4

If u want tunes,u need hornpipes. The best pirate tune is the "Trumpet Hornpipe". Anyone in the UK would recognise it as "Captain Pugwash", a children's TV programme from the sixties. U don't say wha tinstrument u play but it goes well on fiddle. Irish music has loads of hornpipes - Soldier's Joy, Boys of Bluehill, Harvest Home. College hornpipe (Sailor's Hornpipe). There are websites galore about Sea songs, Pirate stuff, Hornpipe music.)Arr, Jim lad!) Hope this helps.

Answer 5

I don't know if you can sheet's for it. But, back in the 70's when the Partridge Family was on T.V. Shirley Jones did some music with whales singing in the back ground. It was unusual but very melodic & soothing.