Juni 2001 von Edel Records im deutschsprachigen Raum veröffentlicht wurden. All for to sound the seas, my boys, that is so wide and deep She was killed by the Sailor Animamate, who took her Star Seed so that she could win Sailor Galaxia's favor. The Mermaid Traditional: courtesy of www.SailorSongs.com. I learned “The Mermaid” through Girl Scout camp and Mariner Scout oral tradition. […] When the existential cover that culture provides is pierced, it is very often humor that serves as the first line of defense. The upshot of all this is that, if the versions of the ballad are telling very different stories, we could say that in some he might really be a good captain and in others he definitely isn’t. In “The Mermaid,” as well as “Sir Patrick Spens,” a storm arrives just after she is sighted, and that’s what causes the ship to go down. Till at last our gallant ship she tooked round about The most direct statement of this theme is in Child’s version G, in which Spens himself cries: O wha is this, or wha is that, Whom I shall nevermore see. [7], In total, Mermaid vs Sailor contains six songs written, produced, and recorded by Diamandis. [11] "Horror Pop" follows, a song that makes several references to horoscopes and astrological signs. They’re not wrong, either; by the end of the song, they’ve been drowned. But in that gale, the port, the land, is that ship’s direst jeopardy; she must fly all hospitality; one touch of land, though it but graze the keel, would make her shudder through and through. Rather, the voyage ended in wreck because the king insisted that it be undertaken during the part of the year when sailing was most dangerous. In American versions of British and Irish songs, supernatural elements are often lost, and “The Mermaid” is no exception to this. It’s common to add verses about other crew members, such as the doctor or the gunner (as in this version by Bounding Main), and in small-group settings it’s common for amateur singers to add verses that refer to their own occupations or situations in their lives. [14] The popularity of her Myspace profile and Mermaid vs Sailor led to her discovery by Neon Gold Records head Derek Davies, who worked with Diamandis for a period of six months. [2] After completing several recordings, she compiled them into a demo tape and submitted it to several major record labels for consideration. After all the other characters lament for their wives, sweethearts, and parents, the cook declares that he is more concerned about the kettles and pots than the danger! And being not far from land, This song is forcibly sung by Scrum in order to attract the mermaids. Returning to the earlier observation that the song is more about death than about magical creatures, and that the mermaid is a warning, harbinger, or sign of impending death, what is the relationship between her form and her meaning? Then up stepped the helmsman of our ship [3] According to her, she produced and packaged approximately 70 physical copies of the EP. Mermaid's Song ist ein Fantasyfilm aus dem Jahr 2015 von Nicholas Humphries mit Iwan Rheon, Katelyn Mager und Brendan Taylor. However, she distinguished herself from these artists by applying a unique "voice and melodic style" to glam pop and ballad-style songs. Entdecken Sie The Sailor and the Mermaid (Original Mix) von The Dave Brubeck Quartet bei Amazon Music. As a result of this, you’ll find very similar versions of “The Mermaid” performed in many corners of the professional and amateur folk music worlds, from Ireland to Australia, including the global Celtic music scene, the nautical music niche, and even the children’s music market. [4] In 2010 when "Seventeen" and "Hermit the Frog" were re-released, they received additional production from English musician Liam Howe. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ppmsc-00402. On the contrary, seeing one almost always spelled disaster. Mermaid ist das englische Wort für Meerjungfrau. No wonder mermaids were both attractive and terrifying to sailors, and a good topic for a song with a fascinating tail. One night as I lay on my bed, He’s “an eldren knicht,” “an auld, auld knicht,” “an auld rich knicht,” “an Irish knight,” “a bra young man” or “a bonny boy”; that is, neither the narrator nor Sir Patrick knows who he really is. The Boatson he’s under the deck The conditions that cause this effect often precede violent weather, so this could account for the belief that seeing a merman predicts a storm. Most youngsters, and most parents, are aware of the sympathetic character from the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale The Little Mermaid, and its Disney adaptation. He plumbed her behind and he plumbed her before And most of our merry men drowned. But tonight many fish will eat me!”. Many of the verses have little in common with our ballad, but about half of them are clearly related to “The Mermaid.” For example, “The Praise of Saylors” contains a stanza very like the chorus of many versions of “The Mermaid”: When the raging seas do foam a man of might and power, And the lofty winds do blow [14][16] He also booked her as the opening act for select shows with Australian singer Gotye. And never incline to the seas, Eliza Pace certainly made an impression on collectors. My Jolly Sailor Bold was a sea shanty. Pace’s song is similar in feeling and tone to a variant that was widely sung in England in the nineteenth century. Sorry for the long answer, but I thought your point was important enough that a full explanation was in order! Paradoxically, the shore for sailors represented home and joy (and in many cases wives and sweethearts), but it also represented danger. [1] Around this time, she began to learn how to properly play the keyboard, an instrument commonly featured throughout Mermaid vs Sailor. She also distributed the EP to several record labels with the hope that she would secure a contract; she ultimately was signed to 679 Recordings in 2008. Many Appalachian and Ozark versions, while keeping the same basic plot, introduce touches that sound jollier. The Clancy Brothers were widely influential in Irish music, but also in folk music more generally. Markdownish syntax for generating flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, gantt charts and git graphs. It contains six demos recorded by Diamandis at her home and approximately 70 CD-R copies were created. It plays with the idea of the seductive mermaid. Entdecken Sie The Sailor & the Siren von Samantha Star Mermaid Music bei Amazon Music. Spens has to beg the cabin boy to hold the helm, and the cabin boy reveals that Spens has beaten and abused him while allowing the men to drink themselves into a stupor. 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Crockett was a member of the Bogtrotters Band from Galax, Virginia, who recorded many songs for John Lomax, and some for the dream team of Alan Lomax and Pete Seeger—but occasionally sang with his wife Lina as well. He plumbed the sea to see how far it was The latter song received a lyrical change prior to release, switching the line "Monopoly is underrated" out for "board games are underrated". As all readers of Herman Melville and Patrick O’Brian know, being caught by a sudden storm near “a lee shore” was one of the most dreaded and dangerous situations known to sailors. In these versions, one or more Norwegians insult him and he leaves precipitously, despite being warned that a storm is on the way, with no urgent order from the king. Do many times endure We’ll never see the land anymore. Why are they always seen near shipwrecks? But Collins wrote that as a college graduate, Mrs. Newman was accustomed to using written words as a memory aid and “studying on” a song for a while before attempting it, if it had been a long time since she had sung it. This stanza occurs without a previous mention of “the parents of the mate,” which suggests that Newman forgot to sing a standard verse in which the character’s parents “may look to the bottom of the sea.” This is consistent with other evidence in the collection. These are liminal spaces, boundaries between land and sea, neither one realm nor the other. However, there’s some good evidence to the contrary. As I sailed out one day, one day, Although it sounds lighthearted and upbeat, it’s still a song about death and disaster. Hanged should he be. Fascinating analysis, and wonderful recordings! You can hear Clayton’s officially licensed version at YouTube as well. It’s possible that the British belief about mermaids is derived from this earlier Norse belief about mermen. And her voice was like the nightingale clear. The Clancys sang “The Mermaid” with all their lineups, and at youtube, you can hear them sing it with Tommy Makem, or, if you prefer, with Louis Killen. Welche Punkte es bei dem Kauf Ihres Sailor mermaid tattoo zu beachten gibt! After all, British and Scandinavian sailors were in constant contact throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. In that context, a chorus or refrain was crucial, so the sailors could use the rhythm of group singing to coordinate their physical labor. The melody sung by Herridge and adapted by Vaughan Williams is suitably morose, and the song has the character of a dirge; you can hear this version on youtube from many folk revivalists, including Martin Carthy. Hob.XXVIa:25: I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. Our most haunted day of the year, Halloween, occurs at the boundary between seasons of the ancient Celtic year—some even say it was Celtic New Year, the boundary between one year and the next. Werbefrei streamen oder als CD und MP3 kaufen bei Amazon.de. 1794 First Pub lication. "My Jolly Sailor Bold" is a traditional sailor's song, it is sung from the perspective of a woman that is in love with a sailor. Ayer’s Hair Vigor created this clever ad, which touches on several aspects of mermaid lore, including the associations of the mermaid with combs, mirrors, and shipwrecks. He cared much more for his ovens and his hooks Read our The ship kept turning around | Kostenloser Versand ab 50 € You can see one version of it here, and another version here. But to hard rock or sand could he find. Pace had also sung “The Mermaid” for the English collector Cecil Sharp twenty years previously, in 1917. Diamandis wrote and produced all of the six songs that appear on the EP by herself using the computer software program GarageBand. After this description of a mermaid and a raging storm, the song describes the ship becoming leaky, and the sailors manning the pumps to try to save her. It was performed by Tamara's actress Gemma Ward. The Mermaid / Sailor's Hornpipe Songtext von Charlie Zahm mit Lyrics, deutscher Übersetzung, Musik-Videos und Liedtexten kostenlos auf Songtexte.com with Combe and Glasse in hand. There’s audio of a version from Arkansas at this link, sung by Almeda Riddle and collected by Max Hunter, in which the ship is the Merrimac, a sidewheel steamer of the Union Navy, which sank off Florida in 1865. Mermaids are also liminal by location, and this way resemble faeries. However, it’s worth noting that if you cut all the verses that describe sailors in the third person, and keep the ones describing “our ship” and “our captain,” you get a song that is very close to “The Mermaid.” This suggests that a version of “The Mermaid” could have existed separately, and could have been expanded with new verses, or combined with another song, to create “The Praise of Sailors.” If so, the 1630 broadside was composed after some version of “The Mermaid” already existed, placing the composition of “The Mermaid” even earlier, possibly in the sixteenth century. This is the case for a version by Emma Dusenbury of Mena, Arkansas, which has the following jaunty chorus: And the sea is a-roar-roar-roar Examples on YouTube include Schooner Fare, Dan Zanes, Lazy Harry, and Danny Quinn. With a comb and a glass in her hand, A-combing down her long yellow hair Links to external Internet sites on Library of Congress Web pages do not constitute the Library's endorsement of the content of their Web sites or of their policies or products. Sir Patrick Spens was not “an unskilled captain” but “the best sailor that ever sailed the sea”. Several of these songs later appeared on other projects by Diamandis, such as her following release The Crown Jewels EP (2009) and debut studio album The Family Jewels (2010). As I went out one evening My mother had sons five, To it, Vaughan Williams and Lloyd added verses found on broadside versions to come up with this text: John William Waterhouse’s painting A Mermaid was a diploma work presented to the Royal Academy in 1901 and published that year in The Art Journal. For the want of a long-boat in the ocean we were lost In 1937, the same year in which the Lomaxes recorded “The Mermaid” from Eliza Pace, Anais Nin referred in her diary to “the mermaid with her fish-tail dipped in the unconscious.” Nin recognized that mermaids symbolize the liminal boundary of the unconscious mind. Mermaid and the Sailor Songtext von Grace Braun mit Lyrics, deutscher Übersetzung, Musik-Videos und Liedtexten kostenlos auf Songtexte.com And some are put unto their shifts, It’s part of the Library’s collection of selected digitized books. This seems to go back to old broadside versions in which, after three characters worry aloud about their wives, the cabin boy sings “I am as sorry for my mother dear as you are for your wives all three.” Combining this sentiment with the usual comic relief role of the tough and unsentimental cook gives us this stanza from Patty Newman’s excellent North Carolina version: Up stepped the cook of our gallant ship And a well-speaking man is he, They held on to the seafarer’s chorus, but in some areas unfamiliar with nautical words, the last line became the delightfully nonsensical “the landlord is lying down below!”. Her cheeks were like two roses, and her eyes were like the stars Please read our [11] The release closes with sixth track "Plastic Rainbow". When as they meet their enemies She could usually remember that there was a stanza came in between two which she sang, or that there was something went on the front of the song, if only she could remember it, or that there was a lot more to that song. The song she sang, she sang so sweet, With a plumb and a line in his hand. And who IS the person that speaks up? That comes with might and power. [4] Three of the songs on the EP were eventually featured on later releases by the artist. Nor ever intend to be. Sailor (stylized as "Mermaid vs Sailor") is the first demo extended play (EP) by Welsh singer-songwriter MARINA. At the end of the nineteenth century, the Harvard scholar Francis James Child published “The Mermaid” as number 289 in his collection The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. It could be purchased digitally as a paid download or as a handmade CD-R self-distributed by Diamandis. And orphans I fear they will be. Cecil Sharp’s 1917 photo of Eliza Pace of Hyden, Kentucky. Sometimes a ballad is distilled down to a little core of action, other times to what Tristram Coffin called an “emotional core.” Listen below to a version of “The Mermaid” by Samuel Harmon of Tennessee, whose very spare text had only three verses: in the first, the narrator spies the mermaid (whom he calls a “little sea miss”); in the second, the ship begins sinking; and in the third, the cook, who is a woman, laments her kettles and pots and declares she would “give one foot of dry land for the sea.”. One way or another, it looks like our ballad has been sung by sailors and landlubbers alike for about four hundred years, and possibly even more. Let’s also note that the ship in most versions of this song is “not far from land,” and the mermaid is “sitting on a rock.” In some versions, including “The Praise of Saylors,” these two facts are connected: the mermaid on a rock is “a testimonial” to their closeness to the shore. For this reason, the mermaid is a potent symbol of the danger of drowning, and it’s only natural that she should be on men’s minds when such danger arises. The same dangerous, magical liminality pervades the mermaid ballad, not only in the location of the ship as “not far from land,” but in the mermaid herself. Mermaids are among folklore’s most beloved magical creatures, especially among children. Arthur Rackham created this 1909 illustration for Undine, a novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Required fields are indicated with an * asterisk. Maggie Gant of Austin, Texas, had a version like that, which you can hear in the player below. Then up stepped the captain of our ship When Land-men stay below. Paul Clayton’s albums are still collected by singers of sea shanties. One explanation sometimes given for mermaids being unlucky is that they are female, and that sailors considered it bad luck to have a woman aboard most ships. Over the past few days I’ve cobbled together a space version I call “The Marsmaid.” I hope to sing both versions for Pop on his birthday in a few days. Sharp commented on her in his diary, calling her “an old lady of 67 who we afterwards hear has been a great offender in retailing Moonshine and has been sentenced several times. Aluminum Siren entriss Sailor Mermaid ihren Sailor Crystal, wodurch deren Körper vernichtet wurde.1 "Mermaid" ist das englische Wort für Meerjungfrau. In this sense, they’re like centaurs, sphinxes, gorgons, and other ancient monsters with human and animal parts. The predicted storm sinks him. About | Press | Jobs | Donate Mermaids are associated with the mythological Greek sirens. The great North Carolina singer Bascom Lamar Lunsford had such a version, which you can hear in the player below. we are not farre from land, He says, ” I have a wife, my boys, in fair Plymouth town In the most obvious sense, they are half woman and half fish, neither one nor the other. It has been suggested that, with their feathers stolen, their divine nature kept them alive, but unable to provide food for their visitors, who starved to death by refusing to leave.