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Haul Away, Joe: the melody (soprano)

The melody of Haul Away, Joe, sung by the soprano, in C#m, from C#4 to E5. Hear it on its own or with the others, then sing it and watch each note light up.

Is the shantyman: sings each verse's call alone and leads both choruses, from the top E on "Haul" and each verse's first word down to the low C-sharp on every "Joe".

Range
C#4 to E5
Key
C#m
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About Haul Away, Joe

Words: traditional sea shanty (as sung by John Short, Watchet; printed 1914)

Tune: traditional sea shanty (as sung by John Short, Watchet; printed 1914)

Haul Away, Joe is a pulling shanty: the shantyman sings a line alone, and everyone answers "Way, haul away, haul away, Joe", landing together on "Joe". Our arrangement is read from Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Chanteys of 1914: the tune John Short, an old sailor from the harbour town of Watchet, sang for it, with the harmony of Sharp's piano part. Other books print the shanty in a major key, but Sharp notes that Short's tune is in the dorian mode, which gives it a darker, older sound, and we keep it, a semitone up. This is the chorus, three verses and the chorus again, for 2 to 4 singers, the soprano singing each call alone.

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