Son Of Rogues Gallery - “Leaving Of Liverpool“ Shane MacGowan with Johnny Depp & Gore Verbinski

“Leaving Of Liverpool“ from ’Son Of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs Chanteys’ The Leaving of Liverpool A fo’c’sle song first documented as having been heard in 1885 aboard an American ship, collected by William Main Doerflinger in the 1940s and first published in 1951. A second version, also collected by Doerflinger and recently discovered at the U.S. Library of Congress, is a capstan shanty that, like the more familiar version, tells the story of sailors saying farewell to Liverpo
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