HEAVE AWAY MY JOHNNY

Created on 01/11/2026
Latest update on 01/11/2026

Artist: Sam Eskin
Author: traditional
Label: Folkways
Year: 1951

On Sea Shanties And Logger's Songs. Roud #616. Also as We're All Bound To Go. Cecil Sharp collected it in 1904 from Captain Vickery in Somerset.

Covers:

1957:

A.L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl

1959:

Paul Clayton [as All Bound To Go, with the Foc'sle Singers]

1964:

Louis Killen

1973:

Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem

1973:

Roger McGuinn [as Heave Away]

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