Publisert:
Håkon Vatle - 11.04.11
Tekster til sjantier
Seilskipet Statsraad Lehmkuhl skal bli liggende innerst inne i Vågen under The Tall Ships Races 2011 Stavanger. Hver kveld vil sjantier runge fra master og dekk fra skipet og innover mot torget. DU er invitert til å møte opp ved skuta og bli med på refrengene og skape tidenes allsang i Stavanger. Det er ingen krav til sangstemme, så lenge du møter opp, gir alt, og synger med den stemmen du har.
Sjantier er arbeidssanger som ble benyttet om bord på seilskuter: Du ble ikke kastet bort fra tauet dersom du sang en sur tone, det viktigeste var at det var trøkk og innlevelse når de sang! Vi håper du møter opp under arrangementet og bidrar til å få hele havna til å synge. Velkommen!
SOUTH AUTRALIA
- In south Australia I was born
Ref.: HEAVE AWAY, HAUL AWAY
In south Australia round the Cape horn
Ref.: AND WE`RE BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Etter hvert vers:
Solo: Haul away you rolling kings
Ref: HEAVE AWAY; HAUL AWAY
Solo: Haul away and you'll hear me sing
Ref: AND WE'RE BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA
- I walked outside one morning fair
and chanced to meet sweet Nancy Blair
- I shook her up and I shook her down
I danced her round and round the town
- There ain`t one thing that grieves my mind,
then to leave sweet Nancy there behind
- Oh, south Australia is a bloody fine place
To get blind drunk is no disgrace
- I wish I was on a lonesome strand.
With rum and whisky all in hand
- Now, two old women lying in the sand,
each one wishing that the other was a man
- And as we wallop around the Cape Horn
We wished to Christ we’d never been born
LOWLANDS
- I dreamed a dream the other night
REF: Lowlands, Lowlands away, my John!
I dreamed a dream the other night
REF: Lowlands, my Lowlands, away!
- My love she came all dressed in white
my love she came all dressed in white
- No word she said no sound she made
No word she said no sound she made
- An` bravely in her bosom fair
A red, red rose my love did wear
- Then I knew my love was dead
Then I knew my love was dead
- Then I awoke to hear the call:
”ALL HANDS ON DECK, ALL HANDS UP`HAUL!”
Leave her, Johnny, leave her (avskjedssjanti)
- Oh, the times was hard, and the wages low
Ref: Leave her, Johnny, leave her
But now once more ashore we`ll go
Ref: And it`s time for us to leave her
Fullt ref:
Leave her, Johnny, leave her
Ooh! Leave her, Johnny, leave her
For the voyage is done and the winds don`t blow
And it`s time for us to leave her
- Oh, I thought I heard the old man say
Tomorrow you will get your pay
- The work was hard and the voyage was long
The sea was high and the gales was strong
- The wind was foul and the sea ran high
She shipped it green and none went by
- The grub was bad and the wages low
But now once more ashore we`ll go
- Oh, sing that we boys will never be
In a hungry bitch the likes o` she
- The rats have left and we the crew
It’s time by damned that we went to.
- Snart seiler me for siste gong
Og derfor lyder høgt vår sang;
- Snart Tungenes me i sikte har
Og Brage skjær me ligge klar
- Og så me stryker fjorden inn
For fulle segl og sydlig vind
- Og når me først av Vardenes er tvers
Me skimtar reisens mål fra mers
- Snart over skoddas dis me ser
Vår Stavanger hamn me har så kjær
- Ein voksen dram til kvar ein mann
før han som sjømann går i land.
SANTY ANA
- Solo: I Amsterdam i Holland låg ein god og gammal brigg
Ref.: HEAVE AWAY,SANTY ANA
Solo: Forsliten var dens skrog og forsliten var den rigg
Ref.: HEAVE AWAY, MY BOYS, FOR MEXICO
- Vi skulle ut frå Amsterdam med ballast utav jord.
Og seile heim til Fredrikstad, og laste høvla bord.
- Vi seilte ut kanalen og pumpa litt i mens.
Men stod til neste formidda` før skuta ho blei lens.
- Og da vi kom i sjøen, gutt, jeg sier deg for sant:
Drakk skipper`n mer brennevin enn skuta ho trakk vann.
- Det var ein søndag morgen, vi blei purra ut til baut.
Kokken kom fra rommet skreik at kjølsvinet flaut.
- Ja, sjømannslivet det er ikke alltid like lett.
Og når han går i land så drikker han seg fra sitt vett!
- Nå kan jeg inte synge mer for inte mer jeg veit…
JO, kokken brente rumpa si for byssa var for heit!!
ALABAMA JOHN CHEROKEE
- Oh this is the story of John Cherokee
Ref: Alabama John Cherokee
The Indian man from Miramashee
Ref: Alabama John Cherokee
Solo : Hey hey ho!
Ref: Oh, Alabama John Cherokee
Solo: Hey hey ho!
Ref: Oh, Alabama John Cherokee
- They made him a slave down in Alabam
He run away every time he can
- They shipped him aboard of a whaling ship
again and again he gave èm the slip
- But they catched him agen an` they chained him tight
Put him in the room without any light
- They gave him nothing for to eat or drink
All of his bones they began to clink
- An now his ghost is often seen
Sitting on the main deck all wet and green
- At the break of dawn he goes below
That is where the cocks they do all grow
PADDY'S BOOTS
- SOLO: Timme way hey –ey –yah!
We’ll all drink whisky and (REF): GIN!
- SOLO: Timme way hey –ey –yah!
We’ll all throw shit at the (REF): COOK!
- SOLO: Timme way hey –ey –yah!
We’ll pay Paddy Doyle for his (REF): BOOTS!