“Brindisi Di Marinai”
Description
Fisherman's shanty for hauling the nets, refrain "Lampabbo! Lampa!" Verses revolve around drinking.
Notes
Hugill theorizes that this may have been the origin of "Reuben Ranzo." The hauling of nets and the hauling of halyards are similar jobs, and the two songs have identical melodies and the pulls are in the same places. The method of singing is also the same as deep-sea shanties, where the final note of the refrain is overlapped with the first note of the solos, and vice versa. - SL
Cross references
- cf. "Reuben Ranzo" (tune)
References
- Hugill, pp. 245-246, "Brindisi Di Marinai" (1 text [Italian and English], 1 tune)
- BI, Hug245