Robert Boddington (or Bod, as we call him), has penned these original songs:
- Ranting and Roaring and Rolling No More
- Captain O’Rourke
- The Essex
- Greenland (with Clayton Vickery)
- Shant Go Back to Shanty Club (with Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd)
- I do, I do (with Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd)
- Craneman
- Bootleg Gin
- No Man’s Homeland
- How’s Santa Claus gonna get on the ship
- The Reluctant Shanty (with Jack Ballhausen) created for UNHCR
Bod was the face of shanties for a few years – see the opening song on the video accompanying this Guardian article from Covid-times.
Here is the Redfern Shanty Club singing at the Kangaroo Valley folk festival (yes, in the bar, just by the port-a-loos). Bod is the one with the sunglasses hanging on his striped shirt.
