I am in the process of a long overdue update of these pages. The music on all of the pages now plays.
Updated pages (noted with an asterix) have a control panel. If you right click on the control panel you can loop or download the music.
Other pages have a link to play/download the music. The music will open in a separate window to play where you can also download the music.
Welcome to The Songs of the Sea. My family has a long history of naval service and I have many fond memories of visiting my father's ships when I was a child. I created the Songs of the Sea for quick access to sea going songs for myself and others.
While sea shanties originated on ships of many different countries, they spread throughout the seas. Shanties were used for the hard work aboard ships and sentiments in them were universal. They were not originally in the musical form we find them today, but chanted - with the chanter calling out words and the men calling out the chorus in rhythm to their work. For information about sea shanties click
here.
