#Mingulay Boat Song

[boatmediatourney]

🚢Boat Song Tournament🚢

Round 3B, match 2

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[darth-azrael]

Brevard Renaissance Fair 2020: Music The Gathering - Mingulay Boat Song

[openphrase123]

the mingulay boat song is forgotten island coded to me. not just the lyrics but also like. gestures. at the historical context.

[poemofthedeep]

Heave your ho as downs her helm and loud her jib to shrouds is held aback to clear what seas would no one steer without a mind to where the night resounds by hearths at Mingulay great whelms of white fly 'round her whiskers surge and whisper spatter over deck "Haul over!" captain loud bawls through the gale the ship now stiffens close by Mingulay's home weather

[bluecrysto-art]

Here are my Fathom Shanty posts all in one place, from the FR forums! It’s been a fun hype up to this breed’s rollout, woohoo!

Definitely check out the thread, a lot of users made really fun FR twists in existing shanties!

The idea is, Fathoms DEFINITELY sing sea shanties as they travel along, like, of course they do! I bet being a shanty lead is an honorable role, hehe!

The last pic is them singing a goodbye song to the sea, as so many shanties do. The specific one I had in mind was “The Mingulay Boat Song”, which has a lot of delightful covers on youtube. It’s wistful and endearing.

[femmchantress]

If she’s your girl, why is she somberly singing the “Mingulay Boat Song” in an empty chapel to an audience of only church mice and ghosts?

[willtheweaver]

Favorite song tag

Thanks for the tag @the-golden-comet

Rules: Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a pile and let people vote on which one they like the most! Then tag tumblr friends to keep the game going!

Don’t have a purpose-built playlist, but I do love my music. I’ll be shuffling names from the most recent ones I’ve listened to (both from physical media and electronic)

Tagging @kaylinalexanderbooks @xenascribbles @jay-avian @whatwewrotepodcast @cowboybrunch

@pluppsauthor @nczaversnick @glasshouses-and-stones @illarian-rambling @theeccentricraven

@leahnardo-da-veggie @mundanemoongirl @paeliae-occasionally and open tag

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday Scottish musician and singer Alastair Mcdonald born 28th October 1941.

Alastair is primarily a Banjo-playing folk/jazz musician, probably most famous for his recordings of Jim MacLean's folk songs, such as The Barras and The massacre of Glencoe, but also for some humorous songs, such as the jazz comedy song Sam the skull, about a Glasgow cat.

McDonald has mainly recorded songs written by other songwriters, for example Robert Burns and Jim MacLean, but has also written songs himself including Culloden's Harvest and The Village Green at Gretna and more reworked traditional songs, The Bell Rock Light, Mingulay Boat Song among others.

Though quite well known – he has toured US, every state except Hawaii and Alaska, also touring Canada, Israel, Denmark, Thailand and several more countries – not much is spoken of him in media.

Much of his work in recent years has been political song, usually socialist and/or republican, such as his tribute song to John MacLean.

At 83 Alistair is still performing, the multi-talented musician will appear at the Abbotsford Hotel in Ayr on Novemer 5th courtesy of Ayr Phoenix Folk Club.

I’ve chosen one of Alistair's more patriotic songs, this is about Sir William Wallace and is called The knight of Elderslie

When Scotland was in darkness and at English Edward's heel

There rose a lad to lead us and to make the tyrant reel

He raised up his arm for freedom showing nerve and Scottish steel

William Wallace, the knight of Elderslie

Sing now of Wallace, the knight of Elderslie

Guardian of Scotland, of truth and liberty

With the loyal Andrew Moray how he danced the English down

At Berwick and at Stirling, he provoked a royal frown

And mercenary traitors from Carlisle to London town

Knew of Wallace, the knight of Elderslie

Sing now of Wallace, the knight of Elderslie

Guardian of Scotland, of truth and liberty

But the skies grew black at Falkirk as the English arrows sped

And many a mother's son did lie among the bloody dead

And when tithe took Judas' money that was placed upon the head

Of Wallace, the knight of Elderslie

Sing now of Wallace, the knight of Elderslie

Guardian of Scotland, of truth and liberty

Then the noblest heart of Scotland was revealed for all to see

When they hacked him into pieces underneath the gallows tree

But the butchery and slaughter cannot scar the memory

Of Wallace, the knight of Elderslie

Once again, the land's in darkness as we hang our heads to mourn

And remember how the Braveheart caused oppression's tide to turn

But Scotsmen, aye, stand ready and prepared for Bannockburn

Thanks to Wallace, the knight of Elderslie

Sing now of Wallace, the knight of Elderslie

Guardian of Scotland, of truth and liberty

William Wallace, the knight of Elderslie

Guardian of Scotland, of truth and liberty

[starplusfourletters]

Janeway knew she’d have to make sacrifices to get home. This isn’t one she expected. [post-Endgame Janeway coda with J&C focus] “Sailing Homeward to Mingulay” is a collection of codas / missing scenes featuring one Voyager character at a time - all inspired by Mingulay Boat Song and the premise, “What if Voyager were sadder?” In collaboration with @cozy-cardassian

[widowshill]

well now i need to know YOUR top 5 shanties/work songs

TOP FIVE ANYTHING !

mingulay boat song, the longest johns. this one... idk what it is. the lyrics are really simple but it always makes me really emotional to hear this song, and i have not been unknown to start crying at TLJ's version. something about it really captures the sense of distance and homesicknesses and grief but ... paired a sense of community and sense of attachment to the men you're working alongside? it's a lot lol i have to listen to it sparingly.

throw me in the drink, drunk & sailor. this one is a spotify link and i am very sorry but i have yet to find them anywhere else. they're a semi-local group to me and i dig all their songs: but this one, especially, is so fun ! – especially when you're in person and contributing to the chorus with a bunk of drunk renfaire goers. tonal shift immensely from mingulay lol.

10,000 miles away, the skullduggers. following the latter, another upbeat one to jam to. and bonus, it's sung by disneyland's pirate group the bootstrappers (who are the skullduggers when not in the happiest place on earth). the narrative is also great in this one... as an incredible journey of mary bryant enjoyer,

santiano, the longest johns, ft. skáld. holdover from the days when i could actually do french. i love this song in english too but it has a little bit extra je ne sais quoi in french. that's all i got.

spanish ladies, the longest johns. i'd be really remiss if i didn't finish out the list of the first shanty I really got into, which is esmeralda's honorable, totally historically accurate don't worry about it theme song from tpof. fuck the british navy y'know but they were right, I do love my spanish lady.

[boatmediatourney]

🚢Boat Song Tournament🚢

Round 1B, match 5

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[sea-shanty-bracket]

"Come, men, can't any of you sing? Sing now, and raise the dead." - Herman Melville

Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Sea Shanty Bracket! This is a silly little competition to see which sea shanty everybody loves the most. (Or the majority of people, at least.)

I'm currently taking submissions for songs to put in the bracket, which will be comprised of random match-ups. Feel free to include a version of the song that you particularly like along with your submission, if you feel like it!

I've decided to keep my definition of "sea shanty" pretty loose. Songs can be traditional shanties or foc's'le songs, or modern songs modeled after them (ex. Barrett's Privateers). Songs that are generally about the sea or oceangoing lifestyle, but that aren't quite sea shanties (ex. The Mariner's Revenge Song) won't be included in the bracket, but we love them anyways.

Songs that have already been submitted:

Leave Her, Johnny

Mingulay Boat Song

Drunken Sailor

Barrett's Privateers

Randy Dandy O

Fish In The Sea

Running Down To Cuba

Lowlands Away

Happy submitting, and fair winds and following seas to you!

[copperbadge]

FYI the link on the epubs section of your website for dinner at the palace was broken for me. The one in your tumblr post worked so I've found a way to get it, just thought it might be useful for future reference. (Also I've been having a great time with these books and managed to be at a campfire with people singing mingulay boat song a few days after reading twelve points)

Oh thank you! I will get that fixed post-haste. Lulu, god love them, has a real problem providing its authors with a stable, not-weird URL for their sales pages, especially prior to publication. For the epubs I put links everywhere that accidentally linked to my internal design page, and I thought I'd caught them all.

I'm so glad you've been enjoying them! And Mingulay Boat Song is one of my favorite sea ballads, so I'm always glad to hear people singing it. :)

[saints-who-never-existed]

For rhe music ask game, 3, 4, 9, and 17

Ooh thank you! These were so so fun to think about! :)

3. A Song You’d Choose to Introduce Someone to your Favorite Genre

My tastes are incredibly broad and often laughably obscure so to choose just one genre above the others was actually really difficult!

In the end, I went with an excellent representation of the lighthearted Celtic/folk-influenced punk I've loved since my teens (though ask me again tomorrow and I'd surely choose something entirely different!). :)

4. A Song You’d Put on a Playlist for a Character you Love

Well obviously dear sweet Nedward is my most beloved <3

I actually thought for a long time about what I'd associate with him, weighing up various tunes filled with sadness and anger.

But honestly, I just want him to feel peace and happiness so I chose a song that makes me feel those things - a lovely, lilting lullaby of a song about sailing and, most importantly, about returning home safe again to the people who love you.

9. A Song in a Language You Don’t Speak

I listen to a lot of songs in Irish and Scots Gaelic but I actually do speak the latter more than a little (look upon my 1300-day+ Duolingo streak, ye mighty, and despair!) so instead I got real silly with it and just chose something that slaps. :)

17. A Cover Song

I really appreciate the passion and anger in this version, and find the subject matter just hits different from a female vocalist in general.

[technofinch]

Alright time to put on my playlist of 25 different versions of mingulay boat song and fall asleep

[yarn-dragon]

About a week until our pirate heist campaign sets sail! I did a little break down of Fawn's playlist

Captain's Call by Derivakat & CG5: Good pirate adventure vibes

Stories by Lilli Furfaro: I am physically incapable of making a dnd playlist without this song on it. Nothing puts me in a storytelling mood like this one does

A Convocation of Fauns (A Faunvocation, if you will) by The Oh Hellos: And the award for best song title goes to! Legally required to put this on a saytr playlist, I don't make rules

Fire and Gold by Bea Miller: A baby saytr with gold eyes watches her parents perform for the first time and a fire is lit

Come Along cover by Pentatonix: The song has masive Feywild Vibes, how can I not include it?

Come and Be Welcome by Heather Dale: Come one, come all, it's time for a show! It starts off the same, how it ends no one knows! With the threat of death and the promise of fun, it's time for a show come all, come one!

Thus Always to Tyrants by the Oh Hellos: the way swashbuckling rogues fight is very dance-like and this song always feels like it should be playing during some kind of dance

The Wolf by PHILDEL: What a normal song to have on a playlist. I'm sure this will have no negative consequences what so ever

Come With Me by Chxrlotte: Run little Fawn, the Feywild isn't going anywhere but you need to

The Mingulay Boat Song cover by Momo O'brien: Fawn after leaving the Feywild, wandering through a shipyard, searching for someone

Abandon Ship by fin: When in doubt, become a pirate

Chocolate cover by Momo O'brien: This is the song playing during Fawn's crime committing montage. She's having fun, all is right in the world

Mary Read by Karliene: Fawn's vibes as a pirate

Anne Bonny by Karliene: Just another song with good pirate vibes