H2 ALL AFLOAT 



seaman's folk-song than you can take the blue 

 from the water or the crimson from the sunset, 

 yet, as some chanties have become so well 

 known ashore, as others so richly deserve to 

 be known there, and as all are now being 

 threatened with extinction, perhaps a few 

 may be mentioned in passing. Away for Rio I 

 with its wild, queer wail in the middle of its 

 full-toned chorus, has always been a great 

 favourite afloat : 



For we "re bound for Rio Grande, 

 And away Rio ! ay Rio ! 

 Sing fare-ye-well, my bonny young girl, 

 We 're bound for Rio Grande. 



The Wide Missouri is a magnificent song 

 for baritones and basses on the water: 



Oh, Shenando'h, I love your daughter, 



'Way-ho, the rolling river ! 

 Oh, Shenando'h, I long to hear you, 



'Way-ho, we 're bound away, 



Down the broad Missouri. 



A famous capstan chanty is well known on 

 land, whence, indeed, it originally came : 



And it 's hame, dearie, hame ; oh ! it 's hame I want to be. 

 My topsails are hoisted and I must out to sea ; 

 But the oak and the ash and the bonnie birchen tree, 

 They 're all a-growin' green in the North Countree. 



which is quite as appropriate to the Nova 



