Seán Dagher’s Shanty of the Week 11 Come Roll Me Over

This is a nice-sounding song with lots of hard-working nautical terms in it. You can get the songs at You can support the Shanty of the Week at Thanks to Patreon supporters Dennis Wiscount, Arcspel, Vlad Nical, Mike Carr, Erik Twombly, Matt Werner, Aleksander Wasser, Cooper Chassé, and Graham Greeve. Chris Koldewey offers this much better explanation of the term “Tack“: - In this case, it may be referring to the Lines called tacks that along with the sheets, do the job for the lowest yard, that the braces do for the higher yards, not the food. The lines are on the deck, and when the ship (or bark, or whatever square-rigger we’re talking about) the strain on these lines is quite heavy, and when they need to be ’snugged up’ require a large single pull. This makes a case that this particular one could have been used at Tacks and Sheets. This makes the lyric consistent with the work done under sail th