Selections recorded and previously released by Folkways and Smithsonian between 1951 and 1997.
Roll, Alabama, roll (The Alabama) (3:00) ; Shenandoah (3:27) / The X-Seamen's Insititute -- Clear the track and let the bullgine roll / Sam Eskin (1:31) -- Greenland whale fisheries / Stuart Gillespie (2:11) -- Paddy Doyle's boots / Alan Mills and the Shanty Men (0:36) -- The black ball line / The Foc'sle Singers (0:59) -- The sloop John B. / The Dicey Doh Singers (2:09) -- Tommy's gone to Hilo / Stuart M. Frank (0:58) -- Lord Franklin / The Gold Ring (2:14) -- The handsome cabin boy / Stuart Gillespie (2:22) -- Rio Grande / The Foc'sle Singers (2:43) -- Run come see / The X-Seamen's Institute (2:41) -- Ten-penny bit / Ellen Cohn (1:27) -- South Australia / Stan Hugill (3:04) -- Haul away Joe / Lead Belly (2:49) -- Blood-red roses / Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seger, A.L. Lloyd, and chorus (1:33) -- All for me grog / Louis Killen, Jeff and Gerret Warner, and Fud Benson (3:04) -- Haul on the bowline / The Foc'sle Singers (1:17) -- Bully in the alley / Morrigan (1:39) -- Chesapeake born / Tom and Mark Wisner (4:15) -- A hundred years on the eastern shore / Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, A.L. Lloyd, and chorus (1:49) -- Dredgin' is my drudgery / Tom and Mark Wisner (2:26) -- Liverpool judies / Stuart M. Frank (1:05) -- Santiano / The X-Seamen's Institute, Louis Killen, and Stan Hugill (1:43) -- Reuben Ranzo / The X-Seaman's Institute (1:25) -- The girls around Cape Horn / Tom Goux and Jacek Sulanowski (2:18) -- Adieu, my lovely Nancy / Morrigan (2:19) -- The Dreadnaught / Tom Sullivan (3:27) -- Married to a mermaid / Tom Goux and Jacek Sulanowski (1:31) -- Boney / The X-Seaman's Institute (1:06) -- Homeward bound ; The old slipper shoe / Tom Sullivan (1:52) -- Homeward bound / Stuart M. Frank (2:31)