Shanties collected from John Short in 1914. This is the second of three CDs which record the repertoire of John Short a.k.a. Yankee Jack of Watchet, Somerset in England's West Country, who, in 1914, gave the folk-song collector Cecil Sharp nearly sixty shanties, several in early rare versions. John spent over fifty years working in sailing boats, much of his younger days in deep-water ships, sailing all around the world as a shantyman. He was born in 1839, went to sea with his father when he was nine; went deep sea at eighteen, married and retired from the deep water trade in his mid-thirties and died when he was ninety-two, in 1933. Sung by: Jim Mageean, Jeff Warner, Keith Kendrick, Jackie Oates, Roger Watson, Sam Lee, Tom Brown, Barbara Brown, Doug Bailey.