bring us sugar and tea and rum!” Others cranked it on their car stereos to skeptical passengers as if it were “Straight Outta Compton,” and within a few edits the shanty was propelling a party.ĭescribing it as “fun to see,” Carr noted the form is perfect for TikTok. A musical style created for group sing-along, soon people stacked layers of vocalists bellowing ". The platform’s collaboration feature further amplified the clip as musicians - violinists, bassists, drummers, remixers - added accents. Think of it as that guy on a skateboard rolling to Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” - but with teens y’arrrgging along to the lyrics, “Soon may the Wellerman come! / To bring us sugar and tea and Sea Shanties on Ship a thing again #2020 #MilitaryHumor #DirtyDozen #Marines #Army #Navy #Airforce #Sailors #seashanty #Fairwinds #Fyp #Miltok #4 ♬ Leave Her Johnny - Sean Dagher & Nils Brown & Michiel Schrey Within days the invigorating work-song and others of its ilk, sung to keep rhythm during laborious, group-driven jobs, had overtaken the social media platform and flooded into the larger cultural conversation. On TikTok, a Scottish postman-musician’s take on the old song, “Soon May the Wellerman Come,” went viral. Then, like Moby Dick rising from the muffled rollings of a milky sea, shanties roared into the here and now. “What possible way could sea shanties come up in the news?” “You know, I’ll probably never get called for any kind of news thing again,” he recalled on the phone from his home in Lexington.
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January 2021: Aye but if you listen closely you'll find The Wellerman is no man at all, but in fact a shipĪnd luckily for those who still think the classic sea shanty isn’t really their cup of tea, there’s always the electronic club banger remixes to ease them into the world of SeaShantyTok.Last week James Revell Carr, an ethnomusicology professor at the University of Kentucky and a scholar on maritime song, was watching the chaotic news cycle on TV when he had an idle, discouraging thought about his area of expertise. March 2020: Two weeks inside actually sounds kind of nice Men will literally wait for the wellerman to come to bring them sugar, tea, and rum instead of going to therapy 'Albion's Favorite Badboy' Jake Young January 12, 2021
Mfw the Wellerman comes to bring us sugar and tea and rum. Tim – Poster of Hugo Pics January 11, 2021 Similarly, the “tonguing” sung about is the process of cutting blubber off beached carcasses, which were boiled down into whale oil and exchanged for their pay of staples.Įven though the conditions sung about aren’t relatable to really anyone in the 21st century, it is quite refreshing to see the internet connected over such a silly thing like singing old and obscure songs about whaling together.īut if you can’t sing, don’t stress. The most joyous videos on SeaShantyTok are actually just those of people enjoying these folksongs with their friends, figuring out that they privately enjoy a sea shanty or two themselves, or turning the Wellerman into its own ~sugar and rum~ meme.Ģ021 is the year of the sea shanty /ohOAGvkbtC supply ships that would provide staples to the workers - like sugar and rum - as a form of payment, instead of money. Sources also say that the Wellerman referenced throughout the folksong is actually the Weller Bros. The winds blew hard, her bow dipped down,Ī number of sources report that the song is in direct reference to the men who worked under The Weller Bros, an Australian shore-wailing company that operated along the New Zealand coast in the 1800s. But in a modern context, the track’s lyrics make very little sense, which, considering the New Zealand sea shanty dates back to the mid-19th century, is not at all surprising.Īnd the name of that ship was the Billy o’ Tea Me today, full-throated: SOON MAY THE WELLERMAN COME/TO BRING US SUGAR AND TEA AND RUM #seashanty #seashantytokĭespite a number of sea shanties existing in the world, ‘Wellerman’ seems to have become a very clear favourite on TikTok. Me, yesterday: tf is this sea shanty shit everyone’s obsessed with suddenly? This is awful
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