Historical introduction -- The age of sail and songs, 1818-1920s -- Outward and homeward bound. Spanish ladies ; Rio Grande ; Shenandoah ; We set out over the Atlantic ; Sacramento ; Paddy lay back ; O ye merry seamen ; Santiana ; Leaving of Liverpool ; Goodbye fare-ye-well ; Outward and homeward bound ; Goodbye Madras ; Rolling home ; Leave her, Johnny, leave her -- Sailors, their work, grouses and demise. Strike the bell ; Did you know old Father Lancelot? ; The three sailors of Groix ; Return of the sailor ; We must not grieve, we must not grouse ; Song of the helmsman ; Hauling song ; Ben backstay ; Where am I to go, me Johnnies? ; Get the boat in the water ; The sailor's grave ; Bold MacCarteney -- Ports, harlots, shanghaiing and pressgangs. Curac̦ao ; Liverpool judies ; The runners of Hamburg ; Hamburg, you lovely town ; A-rovin' ; Annie madam ; Maggie May ; What we'll do ; Can't ye dance the polka? ; Go to sea no more ; Ratcliffe Highway ; Jean Franc̦ois of Nantes ; Blow the man down ; Here's the tender comin' ; Flash gals of the town ; Singapor sang ; Paddy west -- Sailors' girls: faithful and faithless. Gangspilliedje ; The handsome cabin boy ; Once there was a crafty girl ; Cawsand Bay ; Passing through Paris ; Come to me on Saturday night ; Stormy winter's night ; Haul away, old fellow, away ; The iron man ; The cold, cold weather's blowin' in from sea ; The pretty maid climbs up the highest mountain ; Madeleine ; Sally Brown ; Rosabella Fredolin ; Julia ; My man he was a sailor ; Back of our house ; A sailor loves the ocean waves ; Ballast song ; When the lame one goes to market -- Whalers, fishermen, smugglers and pirates. A sailor toast ; All who want to Iceland go ; E Amòla ; Fisherman's song ; Rolling down to old Maui ; The female smuggler ; Dundee whalers ; Reuben Ranzo ; Bound for Valparaiso ; Strike the whale ; Eight bells ; Fish of the sea ; Störtebeker ; The fourteenth of February ; The thirty-first of August ; The great racer -- Danger and violence; ships (factual and otherwise). Barney Buntline ; Lively there, all hands on deck ; A little ship ; The ship in distress ; Rude boreas ; The ship Benadotte ; It happened in Gothenburg ; Blow, boys, blow ; The Hamburg four-master ; The Dreadnaught ; Bounty was a packet ship ; La Pique ; The Danaé ; The daughters of La Rochelle ; Clear the track ; The Flying Cloud ; The old brig ; The Ebenezer ; Albertina ; Magellan -- Sailors' food and drink. Sink it down, a tot each man ; Sailor's drinking song ; Drunken sailor ; Billy boy ; Last time I crossed the hill ; Here's your rum! ; The cook ; The limejuice ship ; The finest cook ; Whiskey Johnny -- Superstition, customs and pidgin. The Hoffnung ; The Flying Dutchman ; Married to a mermaid ; The dead horse ; Samoa song ; Kinakusten ; My father was a Dutchman ; Sampan girl.