Bounding Main is a crew of veteran environmental theater performers with the love of music and the sea in their blood. Performing together since 2003, they preserve the Elizabethan Sea Dog look in their costumes and gear, singing sea shanties and maritime ballads from 400 years ago through today. Bounding Main shows are filled with spirit, humor and harmony; their arrangements of traditional nautical music bring the listener into the world of pirates, adventure and romance.
Bounding Main's home port lies in the Western Great Lakes region (Chicago and Milwaukee), and they regularly perform for maritime and tall ship events, cultural and music festivals, pirate-themed gatherings, at museums, aboard tall ships and at corporate functions. Give them a listen, and you, too, will join the ranks of the Bounding Mainiacs
1.
A Capitol Ship
It’s a ship song. But sadly, the ship does not sink. The song does however contain mysterious lyrics that sound like, “on the Gulliby Isles where the pooh-poo smiles and the anagazanders roar.” Spend some time figuring that one out.
Catalog Id: 260848
Composed: 1910
Dramatic Music •
Pirate music
Tempo: Medium Fast
Artist: Bounding Main
6.
Blow the Wind Southerly
This is an amazingly sweet tune that our girls have down to a science of harmony. Maggie's heartfelt performance speaks for the wives of the men who work at sea. Gina and Christie's beautiful accompaniment makes this song a treasure. It is not to be missed.
Catalog Id: 260582
Composed: 1850
Dramatic Music •
Pirate music
Tempo: Medium Fast
Artist: Bounding Main
8.
Bully in the Alley
A love song, sort of. Roughly translated it’s a song about a boy and a girl and someone being blind drunk and stumblin’ in an alley. We do that too but without the alcohol. We just like being in blind alleys.
Catalog Id: 260845
Dramatic Music •
Pirate music
Tempo: Medium Fast
Artist: Bounding Main
C/U: $180.00
R/U: $2.99
STEREO Length 2:24
9.
Cadgewith Anthem
A “girls blame the guys” song. The ladies are in desperate circumstances, just take a look at with whom they sail, and they are forced to turn to a life of crime. They only steal from the audience though, just like Robin Hood. Kinda. Maybe.
Catalog Id: 260852
Composed: 2004
Dramatic Music •
Pirate music
Tempo: Medium Slow
Artist: Bounding Main
C/U: $180.00
R/U: $2.99
STEREO Length 1:56
10.
Cape Cod Girls
A capstan or pump shanty, also known to us as a “shanty-shanty”. This one tells you all you would ever need to know about the girls, kids, cats, and shoes that inhabit Cape Cod.
Catalog Id: 260851
Dramatic Music •
Pirate music
Tempo: Medium
Artist: Bounding Main
C/U: $180.00
R/U: $2.99
STEREO Length 3:18
11.
Derelict
Everyone loves pirates, and what better song than Derelict to give an audience all of the expected "Yo-ho-ho's" that they long to hear? David Yondorf's amazing voice carries all of us through this piece. Heather Lewin's fiddle helps us turn this song into an appropriately spooky piece.
Catalog Id: 260584
Composed: 1910
Dramatic Music •
Pirate music
Tempo: Slow
Artist: Bounding Main
13.
Fiddler's Green
A soulful, end of the voyage, end of days song written by John Conolly.
Dean sings to the concertina accompaniment of our friend David HB Drake.
Catalog Id: 260577
Composed: 1968
Dramatic Music •
Pirate music
Tempo: Medium Slow
Artist: Bounding Main
16.
Haul Away Joe
A tack and sheet shanty. That’s right, a tack and sheet shanty. Say that fast a few times (Bounding Main is not responsible for the filth that may pour from your lips while saying “a tack and sheet shanty”).
Catalog Id: 260842
Dramatic Music •
Pirate music
Tempo: Medium Slow
Artist: Bounding Main
18.
Herzogin Cecile
This is a ship song. The ship sinks. We love it when that happens! We had a hard time keeping to the traditional sea-faring style of music that this piece deserves. Christie’s lyrical storytelling about the ship makes us all want to snap our fingers, turn the lights down low, and do a little jazz.
Catalog Id: 260844
Composed: 1985
Dramatic Music •
Pirate music
Tempo: Medium Slow
Artist: Bounding Main
C/U: $180.00
R/U: $2.99
STEREO Length 2:44
19.
High Barbaree
Rollicking sea battle between a frigate and a pirate ship - includes excellent vocal harmonies with battle and sea sounds
Catalog Id: 260841
Dramatic Music •
Pirate music
Tempo: Medium
Artist: Bounding Main
C/U: $180.00
R/U: $2.99
STEREO Length 3:06
20.
Irish Rover
This traditional Irish Tune is a ship song. And yes, gloriously, it sinks! Not only does it sink, it takes the crew and their mangy, flea-bitten, poop-machine of a dog with them. Boy we miss that dog . . .
Catalog Id: 260849
Dramatic Music •
Pirate music
Tempo: Medium Fast
Artist: Bounding Main
22.
Leave Her Johnnie
Leave Her, Johnnie is homeward-bound shanty and is normally sung by the men preparatory to landing. It is an opportunity for the crew to complain about the officers, the food, the ship, the pay and fellow sailors. We arranged Leave Her, Johnnie to be the voice of the women waiting for their men.
Catalog Id: 260585
Dramatic Music •
Pirate music
Tempo: Slow
Artist: Bounding Main
24.
Little Boy Billie
A few of the boys die song. Tragedy? We think not. In fact, they get what’s coming to ‘em. Adventure and cannibalism on the high seas!
Catalog Id: 260847
Dramatic Music •
Pirate music
Tempo: Medium
Artist: Bounding Main
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