Longest Johns Backing Tracks

Longest Johns Backing Tracks – Wellerman

Longest Johns (The) are a British folk music group. Consisting of consisting of Andy Yates, Dave Robinson, Jonathan “JD” Darley, and Robbie Sattin, they self-pen many of their own songs in the style of traditional folk and sea shanties.

Although their first album was released in 2016, it wasn’t until 2019 that they gained media attention. They had released their song ‘Wellerman’ and a version of it by Nathan Evans went viral on TikTok. Since then the song has been streamed on the music platform Spotify over 50 million times. Ronan Keating and Gary Barlow produced a celebrity duet version of the song.

The Longest Johns have since been signed with a major record label and released further albums.

Longest Johns Backing Tracks

Wellerman

Lyrics

There once was a ship that put to sea
The name of the ship was the Billy of Tea
The winds blew up, her bow dipped down
Oh blow, my bully boys, blow (huh)

Soon may the Wellerman come
To bring us sugar and tea and rum
One day, when the tonguing is done
We’ll take our leave and go

She’d not been two weeks from shore
When down on her a right whale bore
The captain called all hands and swore
He’d take that whale in tow (huh)

Soon may the Wellerman come
To bring us sugar and tea and rum
One day, when the tonguing is done
We’ll take our leave and go

Da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da

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