Gordan. As you said I left out Liverpool Lou. No offence to Lou. Sri
Here is label for youtube the folk song below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-REP3WPY6I&sns=em
May as well throw in the others too.
Liverpool folk song Johnny Todd
(With photos) you tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m_ysiV4uVY&sns=em
I wish I was back in Liverpool by Dubliners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-REP3WPY6I&sns=em
Folk song Jamboree played in Liverpool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ92emElb3Y&sns=em
My old man's a Scouser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atQ-Js0uMlU&sns=em
Liverpool Lullaby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mwPuardvZU&sns=em
One that was sung in many folk song venues in 70s
Fiddlers green.
It is about the legendary land where seafarers go after they have crossed the bar.
When Shell came around the college I was at Spring 74 to sell their company to those on the R/Os courses this song was played on the film they showed with a man in his oilskins leaning over a rail looking into the sunset and musing he wouldn't be anywhere else. It was my favourite folk song and I emded up putting on an application and ended up at Shell Centre a short time later for interviews, testsmedical etc.. It's got a lot to answer for!!
As I walked by the dockside one evening so fair
To view the salt waters and take the salt air
I heard an old fisherman singing a song
Oh, take me away boys me time is not long
Wrap me up in me oilskins and jumper
No more on the docks I'll be seen
Just tell me old shipmates, I'm taking a trip mates
And I'll see you someday on Fiddlers Green
Plus several more verses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zviVCHO2_8k&sns=em
And lastly this early seventies folk song was one that was written by a £10 pommie accountant that emigrated from Scotland aged 25 for Aussie in 1969 and became folk songwriter and performer Eric Bogle.
This song and the beautiful lyrics certainly would have been appropriate when the ships arrived at Port of Liverpool.
Safe in the harbour at last
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=josjdS5Rj2w&sns=em
Lyrics
Have you stood by the ocean on a diamond-hard morning, And felt the horizon stir deep in your soul; Watched the wake of a steamer as it cut through blue water, Been gripped by a fever you just can't control?
Ah, to throw off the shackles and fly with the seagulls, To where green waves tumble before a driving sea wind; Or, to lie on the decking on a warm summer evening, Watch the red sun fall, burning beneath the earth's rim.
But to every sailor comes time to drop anchor, Haul in the sails, and make the lines fast; You deep water dreamer, your journey is over, You're safe in the harbour at last; You're safe in the harbour at last.
Some men are sailors, but most are just dreamers, Held fast by the anchors they forge in their minds, Who in their hearts know they'll never sail over deep water, To search for a treasure they're afraid they won't find.
So, in sheltered harbours they cling to their anchors, Bank down the boilers and shut down the steam; And wait for the sailors to return with much treasure, That will fan the dull embers and fire up their dreams.
But to every sailor comes time to drop anchor, Haul in the sails and make the lines fast; You deep water dreamer, your journey is over, You're safe in the harbour at last; You're safe in the harbour at last.
And some men are schemers who laugh at the dreamers, Take the gold from the sailors and turn it to dross; They're men in a prison, they're men without vision, Whose only horizon is profit and loss.
So when storm clouds come sailing across your blue ocean, Hold fast to your dreaming for all that you're worth; For as long as there's dreamers, there will always be sailors, Bringing back their bright treasures from the corners of earth.
But to every sailor comes time to drop anchor, Haul in the sails, and make the lines fast; You deep water dreamer, your journey is over, You're safe in the harbour at last; You're safe in the harbour at last.