Ewan MacColl & A. L. Lloyd - Stormalong

From the album "The Blackball Line" by A. L. Lloyd & Ewan MacColl & Chorus with Alf Edwards, 1957. The main vocalist on this tune is Ewan MacColl.

From the notes on the back of the record:
"The songs on this disc are either work songs - sea shanties - or diversionary songs - foc'sle songs or forebitters - sung during the evening dog watch, when the men gathered round a squeeze-box in the foc'sle or, in fair weather, sat around the bitts or around the fore-hatch. The great days of sailor-singing were in the first two thirds of the nineteenth century, when the really fast ships were evolved. When "if the men don't sing right, the ship don't move right" was the axiom, and a good shanty-man was always sure of a job on a fast clipper. Roughly, shanties are of three kinds; capstan shanties, used for such jobs as weighing anchor; halliard shanties for hoisting the heavy yards; short drag shanties for taking in slack or hauling on sheets and braces."