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Original Shanties


Cindy Tonkin - March 27, 2025

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.

Go to the Randy Dandy Shanties main page for more goodness.

Here are the direct links to the original songs (more to come).

  • Anne Dieu-le-Veut (Cindy Tonkin)
  • A-Piratin’ A-Piratin’ (Cindy Tonkin)
  • Billowing Sea (Dan Werndly)
  • Bootleg Gin (Robert Boddington)
  • Captain O’Rourke (Robert Boddington)
  • Ching Shih (Emma Norton)
  • Christmas Shanty (to God Rest ye’ Merry Gentlemen) (Cindy Tonkin with Ella Arendelle)
  • Come to the Tavern (Cindy Tonkin)
  • Craneman (Robert Boddington)
  • Fair winds and following sea (to Silent Night) (Cindy Tonkin with Brendon Reed)
  • Greenland (Robert Boddington and Clayton Vickery)
  • How’s Santa Claus gonna get on the ship (Robert Boddington)
  • I do, I do (Robert Boddington and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd)
  • I never learned to mask, boys (words by Dan Barron-Hyland)
  • Jenny’s Song (Sarah Willing)
  • Kill the Shantyman dead (Toby Quast)
  • Molly Malone (dating profile) version (Cindy Tonkin)
  • Newcastle Big Boy (Zach Scho)
  • No Man’s Homeland (Robert Boddington)
  • Professor’s song (from Gilligan’s Island) (Cindy Tonkin)
  • Ranting and Roaring and Rolling No More (Robert Boddington)
  • Rise (Toby Quast)
  • Shant Go Back to Shanty Club (Robert Boddington and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd)
  • Shanty Gospel (Cindy Tonkin)
  • Shanty Gospel Alt (Cindy Tonkin)
  • Shout out to you Princes (Emma Norton)
  • Sing the powerful women (Cindy Tonkin)
  • Suez Canal (Jack Ballhausen)
  • The Essex (Robert Boddington)
  • The Reluctant Shanty (Robert Boddington with Jack Ballhausen) created for UNHCR
  • The Scimitar (Cindy Tonkin)
  • Toorali oorali shibberish (Cindy Tonkin)

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