I heard this track on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction the other evening. It comes from the 2006 compilation album of sea shanties and the like Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys.
Baby Gramps turns out to be a legend of the Seattle music scene. Patrick Ferris once said of him:
His voice is a cross between Popeye the Sailor and a Didgeridoo and the plinkity plink of his VERY worn National steel guitar, sounds like a wind up jack in the box. If you listen closely and know anything about music, you'll realize Gramps is an absolutely incredible guitar player.
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That whole compilation is superb -- Bryan Ferry sounding like Tom Waits, Eliza Carthy, Loudon Wainwright... everything on it is wonderful.
What a coincidence. After crowds had gone home this shanty could be heard drifting across the ground from the away dressing room, Lord's yesterday evening: team song.
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