Charles Ipcar

Sea Songs of Ciceley Fox Smith

This songbook demonstrates how some of Smith's nautical poems have been successfully adapted for singing. Included are lyrics, musical notation, chords, and notes for each song. There are also references to most of the recordings that have been made of the included poems, as well as recordings of many of her other poems. In all some 70 poems have been set to music, with two dozen included in this songbook.

Outward Bound
Rosario - Anchor Shanty
Rio Grande
Sailor Town
Limehouse Reach
Shipmates (1914)
Mariquita
By The Old Pagoda Anchorage (1926)
Mobile Bay
   Shanghai Passage
Hastings Mill
Lumber (Steveston BC)
Sailor's Farewell
The Old Fiddle
   The Flying-Fish Sailor
A Ship in a Bottle
The Travaeller
        Pacific Coast (Victoria BC)
Port O' Dreams
    Lee Fore Brace
       News in Daly's Bar
Leave Her Johnnie
The Long Road Home
So Long ( All Coiled Down)

The nautical poems of Cicely Fox Smith earned her by the 1920's a reputation comparable to Rudyard Kipling and John Masefield. Few poets have so successfully described the last years of the Great Age of Sail from the point of view of the deep-water sailor. And yet her works gradually faded from view, only to be rediscovered by folk singers beginning in 1989 and transformed into compelling songs.

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Sailortown Days Sea Songs

Sea Traders
Mobile Bay
Tramps (Chantey for Steam)
Auckland to the Bluff
A Ballad of the Old Navy
News in Daly's Bar
By the Old Pagoda Anchorage
Frederick's of Wooloomooloo
Concrete & Glass
The Traveller
Wreck of the Lady Washington
. Sailor's Farewell
Mother Carey
Outside Track
Leave Her Johnnie
Evening Shadows Fall

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Old Sailor-Poets Sea Songs

Bound Away
A Pier-Head Chorus
Little Black Train.
Tasman Buster
The Chantey of the Cook
Sea Cook
Merchants Island
The Tattooed Lady
Bumboats
The Salvage Men
A Ballad of John Silver
Neptune's Daughter
Sailor Town
Shipmates (1914)
A Ship in a Bottle
Sea Dreams
Mid-Watches
The Long Road Home

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More Uncommon Sea Songs

Rio Grande
Lee Fore Brace
Lumber .
Hastings Mill
Old Fiddle
Haul Away the Nets
Capt. Bailey's Mistake
Dead Dog Cider
Pirates' Own Song
Rodent Mariners
Old She-Crab
Dr. Dogbody's Leg
Anderson's Coast
Rosario
Pacific Coast
So Long (All Coiled Down)

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Uncommon Sea Songs

West Indies Blues
Flying-Fish Sailor
Christmas at Sea
Windlass Shanty
Outward Bound
Yangtse River Shanty.
Shanghai Passage
Hell's Pavement
Limehouse Reach
Mariner's Compass
Widgery Wharf
Wake Up Susiana
Swabbing Days
Pearl Diver
Cowardly Act
Wreckers' Song
Freedom Schooner Amistad
Port o' Dreams
Mariquita
Pastures of Memories

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