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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.

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

Suez Canal

Written by Jack Ballhausen

The Ballad of Deb Lawrie

Written by Jake Nelson

The Ballad of William Oxley

Written by Henry Beissel

The Cable Shanty

Written by Dan Schneider

The Crime

Written by Dan Werndly

The Essex

Written by Robert Boddington

The Good Ship Pasha Bulker

Written by Sarah W and Zack Schofield

The Last Sydney Pirate

Jake Nelson

The Old Hotel McCain

Written by Henry Biessel

The Reluctant Shanty

Written by Robert Boddington and Jack Ballhausen

The Scimitar

Written by Cindy Tonkin

The Ship Sails Itself

Written by Callum Gough

The Wheel of Fortune (ZS Version)

New Lyrics by Zack Schofield, Original by John Tams

The Wreck of the Dandenong

Trad.

There but for the Grace of God go I

Written by Emma Norton

Toby's Holdin' On

Written by Josh Magee

Troy Story

Written by Zack Schofield

Way Home

Written by Kip Elder

Whistling in the Laundry

Written by Cindy Tonkin

Willy Wonka-wonka

Written by Jake Nelson

You Might Be The Bad Guy

Written by Dan Schneider

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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