"Yesterday I ..." accidentally/unwittingly wrote my first sea shanty. Didn't mean to, was mere playing/recording a couple of guitar chords so I could practice some fiddle to them, but one thing soon led to another and, well, a moving picture is worth a million words, yes ? ;-)
Ummm, t'was a dark and stormy night and the Captain said to the Bosun, "sing us a shanty, bosun", and the bosun answered thus ...
Music/instruments and some lyrics by David Sparrow, 27/06/2015.
Instruments used (and in the key of G):
1 x nylon string guitar
2 x stray cats fighting with a couple of fiddles
1 x descant recorder (really ! lol)
1 x banjo (mostly used for crowd control

)
Lyrics:
"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by ..." - John Masefield
"Heave away, haul away, new horizons there to find
on turning tide let's sail away and leave this land behind" - David Sparrow ... and probably (one way or another) many folk who have crewed on tall ships over the years.
Bless.
regarDS