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1906 / Sea shanties

Shangadore

Sea shanty · vocal melody · 1906 journal scan · one complete tune

The complete pumping chanty recorded from W. Bolton and notated by Anne G. Gilchrist in 1906. Its melody and chorus can be played on a concertina.

Playable score

The right hand keeps the site's playable melody unchanged. The restrained left hand is this site's arrangement, not a transcription of accompaniment in the historical score. Ambiguous passages use bass alone.

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Source and rights

The 1906 journal is marked public domain by IMSLP. Collector Gilchrist died in 1954. The crop contains only the complete music from printed page 247.

1906 Folk-Song Society journal at IMSLP