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11553079 No.11553079 [Reply] [Original]

Where were you when you realized 18th century sea shanties were the peak of literature?

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And it's all for me grog, me jolly jolly grog
All for me beer and tobacco
Well I've spent all me tin with the lassies drinking
Gin
Far across the western ocean I must wander

I'm sick in the head and I haven't been to bed
Since first I came ashore with me plunder
I've seen centipedes and snakes
And my head is full off aches
And I'll have to make a path for way out yonder

Where are me boots, me noggin' noggin' boots
They're all sold for beer and tobacco
You see the sole's were gettin' thin
And the uppers were letting in
And the heels are looking out for better weather

Where is me shirt me noggin' noggin' shirt
It's all gone for beer and tobacco
You see the sleeves they got worn out
And the collar was turned about
And the tail is looking out for better weather

>> No.11553205

Well done matey

>> No.11553359

Debate me

>> No.11553409

>>11553079

18th century english folk is goat desu.

>> No.11553442

>>11553079
This is pretty nice desu; if you like this kind of thing OP you should read Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads

>> No.11553584

I love all the ship and sea related vocabulary you can get from reading thoe books

>> No.11553749

who lives in a pineapple under the sea?!

>> No.11553767

Aye, that'll do. Aye.

>> No.11553865

>>11553079
>uppers were letting in
What’s this mean?

>> No.11553871

>>11553079
ye olde sowndeclowde rymers

>> No.11553876

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMYQ4rhwJto

>> No.11553895

>>11553876
Are these historically accurate?
Or just some made up garbage

>> No.11553905

>>11553079
For some reason this reminds me of tha Confederate jingle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-s51B66Sl4

>> No.11554098

>>11553905
Hoorah

>> No.11554415

>soon we'll have space ship shanties

Yes.
Write some prototypes

>> No.11554628

>>11553442
Thanks!

>> No.11554633

>>11553079
pirates are boring m8. I'd rather be an ex-confederate outlaw like any red-blooded God fearing american should. Also I assure you that despite the ironies contained in my last sentence I am extremely serious.

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11555232

>>11553895
A little bit of column A, a little bit of column B, from what I understand. Some lyrics have been streamlined to make more sense to modern ears (and some sailors' songs have been made more "piratey"), and the vocal arrangements are probably innovated by ubisoft's people as well.

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>>11553442
Kipling could write a pretty great sea shanty himself when he put his mind to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THcnf3B3qlE

>> No.11555243

>>11554415
I swear I heard an album in this vain once but can't find it.

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>>11554633

>> No.11556872

>>11553584

I don't.

>> No.11558248

>>11553584

I do NOT.

>> No.11559206

>>11556872
>>11558248
Why don't you find it interesting to learn stuff? Imagine being on a boat and knowing where the mizzin and the foresail is? Where's the stern and the bow?

>> No.11559303

>>11553442
Not OP, but thanks for the recommendation. Enjoying a lot of these right now

>> No.11560500

>>11559206

don't