These are the Shanty Club Originals. Some of our talented crew have written their own shanties. Here are links to most of them. Please feel free to sing them and wherever you can please acknowledge their ownership.
- Callum Gough
- Carlo Ritchie
- Charley Castle
- Cindy Tonkin
- Dan Barron-Hyland
- Dan Kenny
- Dan Werndly
- Dominik Fretz and Cat Vendl
- Emma Norton
- Fergus Miller
- Henry Beissel
- Jack Ballhausen
- Jacob Thurston Originals
- Jake Nelson Originals
- Kip Originals
- Robert Boddington
- Sarah Cobb-Clark (Crochet Sarah)
- Surry Hills Sarah
- Scroggin Band
- Toby Quast
- Tommy Green and Harry Quast
- Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd
- Zach Schofield
Go to the Randy Dandy Shanties main page for more goodness.
Here are the direct links to the original songs and some hard-to-find ones.
- 100% ingredients Dan Schneider
- A Shanty for David DeSanti (author to come, lyrics to come)
- Aiming for Ten Dan Schneider
- Angel Sings (The Cellist is crying) (Cindy Tonkin)
- A-Piratin’ A-Piratin’ (Cindy Tonkin)
- Back to Broome (We didn’t write this one, but it’s here because it’s hard to find the words).
- Billowing Sea (Dan Werndly)
- Bootleg Gin (Robert Boddington)
- Bricks (Carlo Ritchie and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd)
- Buses are replacing trains, Sydney version (Sarah Cobb-Clark)
- Cable Shant Dan Schneider
- Captain O’Rourke (Robert Boddington)
- Ching Shih (Emma Norton)
- Christmas Shant (How’s Santa Claus gonna get on the ship by Robert Boddington)
- Come to the Tavern (Cindy Tonkin)
- Craneman (Robert Boddington)
- De Clisson (Carlo Ritchie)
- Dead but not Forgotten (Dom Fretz – to the tune of Old Maui)
- Driving Song (I never learnt to drive) by Scroggin Band
- Electric Passenger Train by Emma Norton
- Ever my anchor, ever my rock by Jacob Thurston
- Eye of the Storm (Hold on Tight/The Kite Song – Harry Quast and Tommy Green)
- Garlic Bread (Sarah Cobb-Clark)
- Glory and Gold (Let the Dice a-roll-oh)
- Going to Canberra (Charley Castle)
- Green Beans (Cindy Tonkin)
- Greenland (Robert Boddington and Clayton Vickery)
- Hose me Down Boys (Greg Scott and Joe Weihi)
- I am not my car (Cindy Tonkin
- I do, I do (Robert Boddington and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd)
- I’ve lost my count(Sarah Cobb-Clark)
- I never learned to mask, boys (words by Dan Barron-Hyland)
- Jenny’s Song (Surry Hills Sarah)
- Johnny Dunn (Jack Ballhausen)
- Kentucky Meat Shower (Cindy Tonkin)
- Kill the Shantyman dead (Toby Quast)
- Last Sydney Pirate Jake Nelson
- Lightning Dan Schneider
- Lonesome Sea (Brodie Buttons / The Button Collective)
- Love is the Gift That You Give (Cindy Tonkin)
- Molly Malone (dating profile version) (Cindy Tonkin)
- Newcastle Big Boy (Zach Schofield)
- No Man’s Homeland (Robert Boddington)
- Old Hotel McCain (Henry Beissel)
- Old Oxley (Henry Beissel)
- Plenty of Fish in the Sea Surry Hills Sarah
- Princes (Emma Norton and Dan Kenny)
- Professor’s Song (from Gilligan’s Island) (Cindy Tonkin)
- Ranting and Roaring and Rolling No More (Robert Boddington)
- Rolling Home Alt – Zack Version (Zack Schofield)
- Reluctant Shanty (Robert Boddington with Jack Ballhausen) created for UNHCR
- Rise (Toby Quast)
- Shant Go Back to Shanty Club (Robert Boddington and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd)
- Shanty Gospel and Shanty Gospel Alt (Cindy Tonkin)
- Suez Canal (Jack Ballhausen)
- The Ballad of Deb Lawrie (Jake Nelson)
- The Crime (Dan Werndly)
- The Good Ship Pasher Bulker (Surry Hills Sarah and Zack Schofield)
- The Ship Sails Itself (Callum Gough)
- The Essex (Robert Boddington)
- The Scimitar (Cindy Tonkin)
- There but for the Grace of God (Emma Norton)
- Troy Story (Zack Schofield)
- Way Home (Stern sails on fire, brace!) Kip.
- We’re all gonna die some day nautical Version (Cindy Tonkin)
- Which Side? (Zack Schofield)
- Whistling in the Laundry / Daisy Irene (Cindy Tonkin)
- Willy Wonka Wonka Jake Nelson
- You might be the bad guy Dan Schneider
As sung at Redfern Shanty Club, Camperdown Shanty Club, Surry Hills Shanty Club Harbour Shanty Club. More info
Daniel Bornstein of the Grubby Urchins in character with camera on the James Craig in Sydney Harbour, 2022. to the right is Don Brian’s ear.
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