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Pirates OF New Providence
Down Among The Dead Men
Genre: Folk

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Fire Maringo
2. Dead Man's Chest
3. Hills of Connemara
4. Down Among the Dead Men
5. Haul Away, Joe
6. Rosen the Beau
7. Sam's Gone Away
8. Captain Kidd
9. Nancy Whiskey
10. One For the Morning Glory
11. Parting Glass

CD Details

All Artists: Pirates OF New Providence
Title: Down Among The Dead Men
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Abet Music
Original Release Date: 7/3/2007
Re-Release Date: 6/11/2007
Genre: Folk
Style: Traditional Folk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 646688646521

Synopsis

Product Description

The CD includes 11 songs by, for and about pirates: sea shanties, drinking songs, Celtic ballads, and Irish pub songs. There are songs about legendary pirates, regular sailors and beautiful women. It begins with the rousing shipboard song, "Fire Marengo," and includes the well-known "Dead Man's Chest," also known as "Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum." The CD ends with the hauntingly beautiful "Parting Glass."

CD Reviews

Pirate songs sung by pirates

Linda L. Robinett | Ridgecrest, CA USA | 12/11/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This privately published CD was created by a group of pirate re-enactors from the Southern California area. They perform at many of the Renaissance fairs. The performance is at professional level quality. Period instruments are used to accompany the vocals. I suspect that you all have heard the songs on this CD but it is a nice compilation of public domain songs.

Fire Maringo - a call and response shanty for coordinating work on the ship

Dead Man's Chest - based on a couplet from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island

Hills of Connemara - drinking song

Down Among the Dead Men - empty rum bottles under the bar

Rosen the Beau - pub song

Sam's Gone Away - a song that is not about pirates

Captain Kidd - song about the famous captain

Nancy Whiskey - more drinking

One for the Morning Glory - About the women left behind

Parting Glass - Sung to remember pirates lost at sea

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