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Original Shants Library

Here's a big ol', non-exhaustive, list of shants written by the good people of Shanty Club.

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A large portion of these lyrics were painstakingly compiled by Cindy Tonkin.

100% Ingredients

Written by Dan Schneider

Back Home in Sydney

Zack Schofield

Beer Baron

Written by Robert Boddington and Clayton Vickery

Bootleg Gin

Written by Robert Boddington and Clayton Vickery

Bricks

Written by Carlo Ritchie and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd

Buses Are Replacing Trains (Sydney)

Trad.

Captain O'Rourke

Written by Robert Boddington

Captain O'Rourke (She Shanty)

Written by Robert Boddington

Ching Shih

Written by Emma Norton

Christmas Shanty

Written by Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd and Robert Boddington

Christmas Shanty Song

Written by Cindy Tonkin and Ella Arendelle

Craneman

Written by Robert Boddington

De Clisson

Written by Carlo Ritchie

Electric Passenger Train

Written by Emma Norton

Eye of the Storm (The Kite Song)

Written by Harry Quast and Tommy Green

Fair Winds and Following Seas

Written by Cindy Tonkin and Brendan Reed

Garlic Bread

Written by Sarah Cobb-Clark

Glory and Gold (Let the Dice a-Roll-Oh)

Jake Nelson

Gotta Get Paid

Written by Toby Quast

Grantie's Maze

Zack Schofield

Green Beans

Written by Cindy Tonkin

Greenland

Written by Robert Boddington & Clayton Vickery

I Got All the Fucking Work I Need

Written by Robert Boddington

I Left a Maiden

Written by Lorenzo

I Never Learned the Words, Boys

Parodied by Michael H.

I Never Learned to Mask

Written by Dan Barron-Hyland

I'm Feeling Better

Written by Dan Schneider

I've Lost my Count

Written by Sarah Cobb-Clark

Jenny's Song

Written by Sarah W

Johnny Dunn

Written by Jack Ballhausen

Kill the Shantyman Dead

Written by Toby Quast

Lightning

Written by Dan Schneider

Little Lorna Jane

Parody of 'Little Liza Jane' by Robert Boddington

Marriage Shanty

Written by Robert Boddington and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd, with edits from Dan Schneider

Molly Malone (Extended)

Trad, extra verse provided by Cindy Tonkin

Newcastle Big Boy

Written by Zack Schofield

No Man's Homeland

Written by Robert Boddington

Plenty of Fish in the Sea

Written by Sarah W

Poop on Company Time

Written by Robert Boddington

Ranting and Roaring and Rolling No More

Written by Robert Boddington

Rise

Written by Toby Quast

Roll Carpathia

Jake Nelson

Rolling through the Necrobiome

Written by Dominik Fretz and Cat Vendl

Sell Your Soul for a Dollar

Written by Toby Quast

Shan't Go Back to Shanty Club

Written by Robert Boddington and Wyatt Nixon-Lloyd

Shanty Gospel

Written by Cindy Tonkin

Shanty Waltz

Written by Toby Quast

Shine On Me

Written by Robert Boddington

Shout Out to my Princes

Written by Emma Norton and Dan Kenny

Soup

Written by Toby Quast

We acknowledge the Gadigal and Bidjigal people of the Eora nation, upon whose lands we gather and sing.
We acknowledge sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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Numerous photos by Nick Ryden 

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