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Port of Many Ships

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I was browsing a book of John Masefield poems when this tune rose up from the page and dragged me over to the piano. It came so easily, I was sure I had heard it somewhere before. When I sang it over the phone to the late David Kleiman and the redoubtable Heather Wood, they corrected me most solemnly. "I regret to inform you that you have committed composition." While the pandemic required this solo arrangement, it is best sung to a packed song circle where the harmonies roll like organ pipes.

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It'ss a sunny pleasant anchorage is Kingdom Come
Where the crew is always laying after with double tots of rum
And there s dancing and there s fiddling of every kind o sort
It s a fine palce for sailormen is that there port
|: And I wish (I wish), oh I wish, I wish as I was there. :|

The winds is never nothin more than jest light airs
N no one gets belayin' pinned, n no one never swears
Yer free to loaf and laze around, yer pipe atween yer lips
Lollin on the fo'c'sle, sonny, lookin' at the ships
|: And I wish (I wish), oh I wish, I wish as I was there. :|

For ridin' in that anchorage the ships of all the world
Have got one anchor down and all sails furled
All the sunken hookers and the crews as took 'n' died
They lays there merry, sonny, swingin' with the tide
|: And I wish (I wish), oh I wish, I wish as I was there. :|

Drowned old wooden hookers green wi' drippin' wrack
Ships as never fetched to port, as never came back
Swingin' to the blushin' tide, dippin' to the swell,
N' the crews all singin' sonny, beatin' on the bell
|: And I wish (I wish), oh I wish, I wish as I was there. :|

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from Set to the Music, released July 24, 2021
John Masefield arr. Lynn Noel

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Crosscurrents Music Boston, Massachusetts

Lynn Noel brings traditional song and heritage arts online to create community. Lynn has a voice of striking clarity and power, equally at home in rhythmic chanteys and flowing ballads.

Lynn is a respected song session leader on both sides of the Atlantic and the producer and host of the Mermaid's Tavern online folk club. She is currently Program Chair of the New England Folk Festival (NEFFA). ... more

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