SOON MAY THE WELLERMAN COME
Created on 22/02/2021Latest update on 02/11/2024
Artist: Tommy Wood
Author: unknown
Label: Kiwi
Year: 1972
New Zealand sea shanty on comp Song Of A Young Country, released in the eponymous folk songbook by Neil Colquhoun, who collected a version by F.R. Woods in Auckland, NZ in 1966, then in his eighties. Wellermen were sailing ships from the Weller Company of Sydney. They specialized in providing tobacco, sugar, thee and rum to whalers at sea since 1833.
Covers:
- 1977:
- 1994:
Maud Gonne [celtic rock from Dunedin, NZ]
- 1995:
Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir & Ed Trickett [folk from Maine]
- 1998:
- 2020:
Longest Johns [as Wellerman, hit UK]
- 2021:
Nathan Evans [idem; n°2 UK & NL, n°1 GER; it all started on TikTok, turning into a sea shanty craze earning him a record deal]
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