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The Longest Johns – Ashes
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A sombre poetic dirge, “Ashes” protests the gatekeeping of folk and shanty music by ostensible members of the folk community who prefer to treat the genre as a museum of what was
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The Wellermen & The Longest Johns – One More Pull
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[Verse 1] / It's been a long time since you've seen her / Could have been three years or more / Will she be waiting when we dock, boys / Or like others will she be gone? / [Chorus
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The Longest Johns – Hammer and the Anvil
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[Verse 1] / I thought to make a horseshoe, and asked my hammer thus / He said, "I'll ask the anvil what you require of us" / The hammer asked the anvil and she at once agreed
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The Longest Johns – Mingulay Boat Song
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[Chorus] / Heave her ho, boys / Let her go, boys / Swing her head round into the weather / Heave her ho, boys / Let her go, boys / Sailin' homeward to Mingulay / [Verse 1] / What
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The Longest Johns – Oak & Ash & Thorn
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“Oak and Ash and Thorn” is a song released by The Longest Johns on June 10th, 2020 along with 11 other songs on their third full-length album, Cure What Ails Ya.
The song is a
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The Longest Johns – Santiana
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[Verse 1] / Oh! Santiana gained a day / Away Santiana! / "Napoleon of the West", they say / Along the plains of Mexico / [Chorus] / Well, heave 'er up and away we'll go / Away
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The Longest Johns (Ft. Seth Lakeman) – The Workers Song
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[Verse 1] / Oh, come on all you workers, who toil night and day / By hand and by brain, to earn your pay / Who for centuries all past for no more than your bread / Have bled for
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The Longest Johns – The Captain's Daughter
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[Verse 1] / When I was just a lad of twelve, I joined a skipper's crew / To sail about the ocean wide, in search of treasures new / But failed to batten down a hatch, I let in
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The Longest Johns & Lucy Humphris – Retirement Song - Chiptune
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[Instrumental]
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The Longest Johns – Woodpile
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[Verse 1] / Ah-way down South where the cocks do crow! (Hey!) / (Way down in Florida) / Them girls all dance to the old banjo / (And we'll roll the woodpile down) / [Chorus
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The Longest Johns – Four Hours
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[Verse 1] / Come me boys and heave with me / Let's get off this curséd sea / Let's be home to lovers and wives / And leave behind these four hour lives / [Chorus] / (Four Hours
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The Longest Johns – The Parting Glass
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[Verse 1] / Of all the money that e'er I had / I spent it in good company / And of all the harm that e'er I've done / Alas it was to none but me / And all I've done for want of wit
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The Longest Johns – Scrooge
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[Intro] / When a cold wind blows, it chills you / Chills you to the bone / But there's nothing in nature / That freezes your heart / Like years of being alone / It paints you with
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The Longest Johns – Shawneetown
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[Verse 1] / Some rows up / But we floats down / Way down the Ohio / To Shawneetown / [Chorus] / And it's hard on the beach oar / She moves too slow / Way down to Shawneetown / On
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The Longest Johns – Willie Taylor
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[Verse 1] / Willie Taylor and his youthful lover / Full of mirth and loyalty / They were going to the church to be married / He was pressed and sent to sea / She dressed in sailor'
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The Longest Johns – Wellerman
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From 1833 onwards, the Wellermen, ships owned by Weller Brothers of Sydney, supplied provisions to New Zealand shore whaling stations. They did this from their base in Otago, New
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The Longest Johns – Whiskey Is the Life of Man
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[Intro, distorted] / Oh, whiskey is the life of man / Always was since the world began / Oh, whiskey made me pawn my clothes / Oh, whiskey gave me a broken nose / [Verse 1] / Oh
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The Longest Johns – Bones in the Ocean
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“Bones in the Ocean” follows the story of a sailor who survived a shipwreck that killed all of his crewmates. The sailor suffers from extreme survivor’s guilt and believes that if
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The Longest Johns – Fire & Flame
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“Fire & Flame” tells the story of the Halifax Explosion in December 1917, when the SS Mont Blanc and the SS Imo collided in the narrows of Halifax harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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The Longest Johns & El Pony Pisador – Tennessee Waltz
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[Verse] / I was dancing with my darling to the Tennessee Waltz / When an old friend I happened to see / I introduced her to my loved one and while they were dancing / My friend
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The Longest Johns Break Down The Meaning Of “Wellerman”
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Learn about the lyrics of the viral sea shanty on the latest episode of ‘Verified.’
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The Longest Johns – Fare Thee Well (Dink's Song)
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[Verse 1] / If I had wings / Like Noah's dove / I'd fly up the river / To the one I love / [Chorus] / Fare thee well / Oh, honey / Fare thee well / [Verse 2] / I had a man / Who
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The Longest Johns – The Curse
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An original song by The Longest Johns that loosely follows a shanty format. The narrator sings of a life of misfortune, where his diligence and loyalty are repaid with treachery
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The Longest Johns – Randy Dandy-O
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[Verse 1] / Now we are ready to head for the Horn / Way, hay, roll an' go! / Our boots an' our clothes boys are all in the pawn / To be rollicking randy dandy-O! / [Chorus] / Heave
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The Longest Johns – John Paul Jones is a Pirate
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[Intro] / (Set feet, row! Set feet, row! Set feet, row! Set feet, row!) / (Set feet, row! Set feet, row! Set feet, row! Set feet, row!) / (Set feet, row! Set feet, row! Set feet
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The Longest Johns – Moby Duck
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[Verse 1] / After fourteen years I left the sea, for a life upon a lake / After all the storms I'd seen, I needed a good break / I thought still waters would mean peace for me
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The Longest Johns – Drive Thru to my Heart
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[Verse 1] / You know that I love you, and you know that love is true / There's something I feel so deeply about getting drive-thru / We order and shunt along, the best traffic jam
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The Longest Johns – Crossing the Bar
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[Verse 1] / Sunset and evening star / And one clear call for me! / And may there be no moaning of the bar / When I put out to sea / [Chorus] / When I put out to sea / When I put
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The Longest Johns – White Frontier
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[Chorus] / From the first light ray / To the midnight clear / Can we carve a way / Through this white frontier / [Verse 1] / How the frostbite mangles, blackened fingers all
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The Longest Johns – Spanish Ladies
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[Verse 1] / Farewell and adieu to you, Spanish ladies / Farewell and adieu to you, to you ladies of Spain; / For we've received orders for to sail for old England / But we hope
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The Longest Johns – The Llandoger
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[Verse 1] / Good evening, aren't we lucky to be here right now? / And I can't remember when the sun went down / We'll all be surprised if there's a bar in town / That welcomes us
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The Longest Johns – The Auld Triangle
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[Verse 1] / A hungry feeling / Came o'er me stealing / And the mice were squealing / In my prison cell / And the auld triangle went jingle-jangle / All along the banks of the Royal
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The Longest Johns – General Taylor
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[Verse 1] / General Taylor gained the day / (Walk him along, John, carry him along) / Well General Taylor gained the day / (Carry him to his burying ground) / [Chorus] / To me, way
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The Longest Johns – Drunken Sailor
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[Verse 1] / From Tortuga's port we put to sea / And sailed for sixteen days / In the biggest storm I'd ever seen / We almost lost our way / When a call came from a deckhand / “Boys
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The Longest Johns – Beer is Great
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Ho! / Beer is great, beer is grand / I long to hold one in my hand / With frosty head and amber hue / Not much that I wouldn't do / For a pint of ale or smoky stout / Beer goes in
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The Longest Johns – Banks of Newfoundland
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[Verse 1] / Me bully boys of Liverpool I'll have you to beware / When you sail in them packet ships no dungaree jumpers wear; / But have a good monkey jacket all ready to your hand
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The Longest Johns – Skadi's Hammer
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[Verse 1] / Lord of the harvest, master of scythe / Open the fields and collect your prize / Woe to you, John Barleycorn / Rest in peace upon the miller's stone / [Chorus] / Oh the
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The Longest Johns – Nantucket
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[Verse 1] / I come from an island, an islander's ways / Breakers and Quakers and few of us stray / Hunting the oceans with men that won't tire / Nantucket sleigh rides and chimney'
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The Longest Johns – Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate
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[Verse 1] / Safe and sound at home again, let the waters roar, Jack / Safe and sound at home again, let the waters roar, Jack / Long we've tossed on the rolling main, now we're
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The Longest Johns – Proud Mary
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[Verse 1] / Left a good job in the city / Workin' for the man every night and day / And I never lost one minute of sleepin' / Worryin' about the way things might've been / [Chorus
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The Longest Johns – We All Lift Together (Warframe Cover)
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[Intro] / Humming / [Chorus] / Cold, the air and water flowing / Hard, the land we call our home / Push, to keep the dark from coming / Feel the weight of what we owe / This, the
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The Longest Johns – Round the Cape
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[Verse 1] / Well we're goin' round the cape, gold and shores to find / 900 miles of wind and waves smashing up the sides / We're goin' round the cape, there is no other way / For
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The Longest Johns – The Grey Funnel Line
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[Intro] / Don't mind the rain, or the rolling sea / The weary nights never worried me / But the hardest time in a sailor's day / Is to watch the sun as it dies away / [Verse 1
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The Longest Johns – Here's a Health to the Company
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[Verse 1] / Kind friends and companions, come join me in rhyme / Come lift up your voices in chorus with mine; / Come lift up your voices all grief to refrain / For we may or might
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The Longest Johns – Byker Hill
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[Verse 1] / If I had another penny / I would have another gill / I would make the piper play / "The Bonny Lass of Byker Hill" / [Chorus] / Byker Hill and Walker Shore / Collier
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The Longest Johns – Mutiny
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[Verse 1] / We're contracted here, in a rickety vessel on an ocean so endlessly vast / Swore in the mess to state our dissention and swiftly got tied to the mast / For the captain'
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The Longest Johns – Downed and Drowned
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[Verse 1] / San Jose was lost at sea / Along with a Spanish company / Their powder caught under fierce attack / The king never got his emeralds back / They're down, downed and
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