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The 12th Album Release
The long awaited release is now available at most Tuolumne County specialty shops such as
Beat Music & Sonora Music (Sonora), Railtown 1897 (Jamestown), Village Tunes (Twain
Harte), Millers Carpenter Shop (Columbia), Ironstone Vineyards (Murphys), Sierra Railroad
(Oakdale). The album contains sea chanteys, instrumentals, and ballads; 14 songs in all.
Many of the works are about famous sailing & steam ships.
This work contains both original & traditional material about America's
Maritime history.
"They left their homes & loved ones far
behind them. All were willing to take a chance with the ocean. Some had good reasons for
leaving the safety of land. Many needed to find freedom in a new country while others
searched for wealth and adventure. Whatever the reasons were, they all shared one common
bond, they all risked their lives when journeying Into The Arms Of The Sea."
To hear a song sample, click on any song
title below that is followed by 
1. Rounding Cape Horn
The waters off the tip of South America are known as the most treachorous in the world for
sailing. The bottom of the ocean near "The Horn", has become a resting place for
many a fine ocean craft. Only the most skilled sailors have survived.
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2. "A Mermaids Glance"
"Her eyes were full of beauty, but her smile was deadly."
3. Sink Them Down!
During the American Civil War Conference Raiders sailed around the world looking for
Yankee commerce. This work song was inspired by the adventures of the most daring.
4. Ricketts Hornpipe/ The Columbia Bar
The mouth of the Columbia River, Oregon, is a mariners worst nightmare. Large waves pile
over the tops of ships and have sent many to the bottom.
5. Donegal Danny
(Words & Music:Phil Coulter, Alpha Music, Inc. )
The story as told by the only known survivor of a great shipwreck off the coast of
Ireland.
6. Spanish Ladies
A sea chantey from the New England whale fisheries.
7. Whalers Cove
A story ballad about the lst days of the doomed whaleship, Mary Amberside. Her last voyage
takes her on a quest into the cold arctic waters after a very large sperm whale.
8. Leaving of Liverpool - A major immigration point during the 1800s. .
9. Twenty Thousand Leagues
"Davy Jones locker is a cold and dark place to visit, not a dwelling place for the
living or the dead."
10. The Wreck Of The Brother Johnathan
In the summer of 1865, the side wheel steamship, Brother Johnathan, left San Francisco for
the Pacific Northwest. Off Crescent City, the Brother was sent to her death by the reefs
of St. George, carrying 190 souls to a watery grave.
11. Old Maui
An old whaling song of a crew bound for the warm climate of the Hawaiian Islands, the
dream of many Arctic whaler men.
12. The Ballad of the Pomona
On her maiden voyage in the mid-1800's, with over 400 Irish Immigrants, the coffin ship
Pamona, ran aground off Wexford, Ireland. All were lost except for the cowardly crew.
13. The Night They Stretched Larry
"His bones danced by the firelight as we said goodbye."
14. The Fate of Miss Gregg
In the year of 1869 the steamship Northerner ran aground off Centerfield beach (Ferndale,
California.) Many of the passengers tried to make it to the beach in lifeboats. One young
girl and her brother decided to take their chance with the ocean and tied themselves to
the large iron paddle wheels. Her brother was never found. |
