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Artist: Harry Cox
Author: traditional
Label: Rounder
Year: 1953
Roud #511. Term to identify British seamen (both merchant mariners and Royal Navy recruits) and not in a pejorative way. Peter Kennedy recording in Catfield, Norfolk and reissued on Cox' anthology What Will Become Of England? ('00). In '55 Ewan MacColl recorded another version released on Cox' Topic comp The Bonny Labouring Boy (also in '00).
Covers:
Jack Maynard [as Jack The Jolly Tar]
Ewan MacColl [as Jack Tar on sea shanties collection Blow Boys Blow - Songs Of The Sea (Tradition)]
A.L. Lloyd [as Do Me Ama, after cooperating on album Blow Boys Blow]
Cyril Tawney [as Pull The Strings]
Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick [as Domeama]
Byrds [as Jack Tar The Sailor on Ballad Of Easy Rider]
Nic Jones [as Jackie Tar; instr.]
Bob Copper [as The Squire's Lost Lady]
Eliza Carthy [as Jacky Tar]
Louis Killen [as Do Me Ama]
Dan Zanes with Broken Social Scene [on Son Of Rogues Gallery]
Cecil Sharp collected a version in 1904 from Mrs. Hooper in Hambridge, Somerset while Fred Astaire sings a comical version as The Jolly Tar And The Milkmaid in film A Damsel In Distress (1937). Shanty catcher Captain W.B. Whall included it as Doo Me Ama in the first edition of Sea Songs And Shanties (1910). See also: Off To Sea Once More.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)