For anyone interested, last night I promised you a song that is a challenging but, I believe, ultimately rewarding listen, from the same "Rogue's Gallery" album of piratically related songs - a project bankrolled by Johnny Depp after his 'Pirates of the Caribbean" success - as last night's more emollient posting.

Although North American, Baby Gramps' vocal stylings remind me of nothing so much as throat singing - something I have been lucky enough to witness in Mongolia. It is, there is no doubt, an acquired taste, but since you are all people of artistic precocity I expect that you'll all get it within a play or two. Even if it doesn't appeal first time through, can I please urge you to give it more than one listen? The song will reward the persistent...honest!

So, it is a traditional sea song, maybe even a shanty (pedants ascribe this epithet only to particular work songs, usually capstan based), but I hope that you'll agree that this interpretation lifts it above the ordinary.

As always, copyright, no intention, take down doodlee doodlee doo...