British maritime writer Edward Keble Chatterton (1878 – 1944) provides a huge trove of information plus 130 illustrations. Sailing Ships: The Story of their Development from the Earliest Times to the Present Day 'Sailing Ships: The Story of their Development from the Earliest Times to the Present Day' was first published in 1909 but it remains one of the most comprehensive and well-researched books on the subject. 1 file(s) 80 downloadsCategory: Maritime Songs & Sea Shanties Download Because of this, for the first one to three months of his voyage he was just working off his debt-which was known as “paying for a dead horse.” CLICK HERE to read 'A Deep Dive Into Sea Shanties'. Usually, a sailor went to sea after his credit ran out ashore, so he used an advance on his wages to pay his creditor, who was usually the boarding house master where he lived. In a Library of Congress blog article, Stephen Winick says about this shanty: 'The “Dead Horse” shanty refers to a particular tradition among sailors relating to the advance they typically drew on their wages. Sidney Robertson Cowell, Leighton McKenzie and Leighton Robinson. It features the unaccompanied vocals of Alex Barr, Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur. This song is a Marine Café Blog remaster of the 1939 recording from the US Library of Congress. It was to celebrate the end of the sailor's debt to the ship, when he started working for himself. ‘Dead Horse’ aka ‘Poor Old Man’ (shanty in MP3) 'Dead Horse' (also known as 'Poor Old Man') is a ceremonial shanty sung at the end of a sailor's first month at sea. The foreign-owned Pebble Mine would poison Bristol Bay, weaken Alaska’s economy, and threaten our way of life.' 1 file(s) 18 downloadsCategory: Environment & Climate Change, Maritime Songs & Sea Shanties Download Its pristine waters have sustained the Indigenous peoples of the region for millennia, and each year tens of thousands of anglers and visitors from around the world are drawn to its extraordinary beauty and abundance. Home to the world’s largest wild sockeye salmon run, the bay provides tens of thousands of Alaskan jobs and feeds Americans from coast to coast. (4.7 MiB, MP3, MP3, 2:38 minutes)Ī note from Lopker about 'Beautiful Bristol Bay': Lopker shared the song via the Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence. It is also a protest song against the controversial plan to build the Pebble Mine.

Beautiful Bristol Bay by John Lopker (song in MP3) This original song by American singer-songwriter John Lopker is a tribute to Alaska's Bristol Bay.

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