Various Artists - Short Sharp Shanties Volume 2

Shanties collected from John Short in 1914.This is the second of three CDs which record the repertoire of John Short � a.k.a. Yankee Jack � of Watchet, Somerset in England's West Country, who, in 1914, gave the folk-song collector Cecil Sharp nearly sixty shanties, several in early rare versions. John spent over fifty years working in sailing boats, much of his younger days in deep-water ships, sailing all around the world as a shantyman. He was born in 1839, went to sea with his father when he was nine; went deep sea at eighteen, married and retired from the deep water trade in his mid-thirties and died when he was ninety-two, in 1933. Sung by: Jim Mageean, Jeff Warner, Keith Kendrick, Jackie Oates, Roger Watson, Sam Lee, Tom Brown, Barbara Brown, Doug Bailey.