Consists of excerpts from various sound recordings on the Folkways Records label.

Contents list, and unidentified newspaper article on The X Seamen ("Avast! prepare to repel boarders!" / by Chuck Brooks) (1 leaf) inserted in original container.

Previously issued as compact disc.

Previously issued in 1983 as cassette, Sea Heritage Foundation: SFX1-5 (cassette), SFX 1-5 (cassette liner).

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings: SFX 05.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2009. (Smithsonian global sound for libraries). Available via World Wide Web.

Smithsonian global sound for libraries.

Salty selection : sea songs.

Original publisher catalog number:

Original

Original

Sea Heritage library of sailing songs ; v. #7

Songs from the age of sail

Disc 1. Where am I to go (3:16)

Fire down below (1:51)

Ye mariners all (2:24)

Mingulay boat song (2:19)

Rio (3:32)

Haul on the bowline (1:20)

Boney was a warrior (1:17)

Moby Dick reading (3:36)

Bulley in the alley (1:37)

The Oda G (2:29)

Happy and delightful (4:29)

The Grey Funnel Line (3:33)

The ghostly sailors (4:12)

Whoop Jamboree (3:31)

The Erie Canal (3:32).

Disc 2. The wild goose (1:12)

Roll the cotton down (1:20)

Strike the bell (3:06)

When the Colorado rises (2:00)

The harp without the crown (3:16)

A long time ago (1:36)

Fathom the bowl (4:00)

Big Bill Snider [i.e. Snyder] (3:17)

Sounds of fish (4:07)

Married a mermaid (1:43)

Dredging and drudgery (2:32)

Sally Brown (1:50)

Goodbye fare thee well ; Leave her Johnny [i.e. The Clackmannanshire mutiny, with Leave her Johnnie] (6:35)

Bonavist Harbour (1:33)

Pleasant and delightful (4:41).

Sea Heritage Foundation.

Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings.