Wellerman

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"Soon May the Wellerman Come"
Song
Recorded1971 [1]
Genre Folk

"Soon May the Wellerman Come", also known as "Wellerman" or "The Wellerman", is a folk song in ballad style [2] first published in New Zealand in the 1970s. The song refers to the "wellermen", pointing to supply ships owned by the Weller brothers, who were amongst the earliest European settlers of Otago.

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In early 2021, a cover by British singer Nathan Evans became a viral hit on the social media site TikTok, leading to a "social media craze" around sea shanties and maritime songs. [2] [3] [4]

Historical background

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Southern Right Whale, the primally targeted species in shore whaling in New Zealand, rarely appears in Otago waters today. Through DNA fingerprinting that southern right whales are now migrating once again from sub-Antarctic islands to their ancestral calving grounds on the mainland of New Zealand.jpg
Southern Right Whale, the primally targeted species in shore whaling in New Zealand, rarely appears in Otago waters today.

The history of whaling in New Zealand stretches from the late eighteenth century to 1965. In 1831, the British-born Weller brothers Edward, George and Joseph, who had immigrated to Sydney in 1829, founded a whaling station at Otakou near modern Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand, seventeen years before Dunedin was established. [6] Speaking at centennial celebrations in 1931, New Zealand's Governor General Lord Bledisloe recalled how the Weller brothers had on their voyage to New Zealand "brought in the 'Lucy Ann' (the Weller brothers' barque) a good deal of rum and a good deal of gunpowder...and some at least were rum characters". [6] From 1833, the Weller brothers sold provisions to whalers in New Zealand from their base at Otakou, which they had named "Otago" in approximation of the local Māori pronunciation. [6] Their employees became known as "wellermen". [7] [6] Unlike whaling in the Atlantic and northern Pacific, whalers in New Zealand practised shore-based whaling which required them to process the whale carcasses on land. [8] The industry drew whalers to New Zealand from a diverse range of backgrounds encompassing not just the British Isles but also Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Pacific Islanders and Indigenous Australians. [8] The whalers depended on good relations with the local Māori people and the whaling industry integrated Māori into the global economy and produced hundreds of intermarriages between whalers and local Māori, including Edward Weller himself, who was twice married to Māori women, [8] thus linking the Wellers to one of the most prominent local Māori families, the Ellisons.

At its peak in 1834, the Otakou station was producing 310 tons of whale oil a year [6] and became the centre of a network of seven stations that formed a highly profitable enterprise for the Wellers, employing as many as 85 people at Otago alone. [9] From the Otakou base the Wellers branched out into industries as diverse as "timber, spars, flax, potatoes, dried fish, Māori artefacts, and even tattooed Māori heads which were in keen demand in Sydney". [10] However, given that the Colony of New Zealand would not be declared until 1840, the Wellers were treated as foreign traders and were affected by protectionist British import tariffs on whale oil. [9] By 1835, the year that Joseph Weller died in Otago, the brothers became convinced of the need to abandon the station even as they branched out into massive land purchases in New Zealand, which amounted to nearly 3 million acres (12,000 km2) by 1840. [10] The Weller brothers' success in the whaling industry was fleeting, and they were declared bankrupt in 1840 after failed attempts at large-scale land purchase in New South Wales. [9] The Otakou station closed in 1841. [6] In 1841, the Court of Claims in New South Wales ruled that the Weller brothers' purchases of land in New Zealand were legally invalid, after which the Wellers "slipped unobtrusively out of the pages of New Zealand history". [10] Commercial whaling in New Zealand continued until the 1960s.

Synopsis

The song's lyrics describe a whaling ship called the Billy o' Tea and its hunt for a right whale. The song describes how the ship's crew hope for a "wellerman" to arrive and bring them supplies of luxuries.

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

"Wellerman" chorus

According to the song's listing on the website New Zealand Folk Song, "the workers at these bay-whaling stations (shore whalers) were not paid wages, they were paid in slops (ready made clothing), spirits and tobacco." [7] The chorus continues with the crew singing of their confidence that the "tonguin'" will be the last step of their plight. Tonguing in this context refers to the practice of cutting strips of whale blubber to render into oil. [8] Subsequent verses detail the captain's determination to bring in the whale in question, even as time passes and the quartet of whaling boats is lost in the fight. In the last verse, the narrator conveys how the Billy o' Tea is still considered locked in an ongoing struggle with the whale, with the wellerman making "his regular call" to strengthen the captain and crew.

History

New Zealand–based music teacher and folk music compiler Neil Colquhoun claimed to have collected the song around 1966 [12] from one F. R. Woods. Woods, who was in his 80s at the time, had allegedly heard the song, as well as the song "John Smith A.B.", from his uncle. The song "John Smith A.B." was printed in a 1904 issue of The Bulletin , where it was attributed to one D.H. Rogers. David Hunter Rogers was a first-generation Scottish immigrant who worked in the Union Company beginning in 1880; Wellerman does not resemble "John Smith A.B." or his other published poems. [7] [ unreliable source? ] In 1973, "Soon May the Wellerman Come" was included in Colquhoun's book of New Zealand folk songs, New Zealand Folksongs: Songs of a Young Country. [13]

Recordings

The song has been frequently performed and remixed, with over 10 recorded renditions between 1971 and 2005.[ citation needed ] In 1990, the New England–based folk trio of Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, and Ed Trickett recorded and released a version on their studio album And So Will We Yet, produced by Folk-Legacy Records of Sharon, Connecticut. [14]

In 2013, the Wellington Sea Shanty Society released a version of the song on their album Now That's What I Call Sea Shanties Vol. 1. [3] A particularly well-known rendition of the song was made by the Bristol-based a cappella musical group the Longest Johns on their collection of nautical songs Between Wind and Water in 2018. [15] In the wake of the "ShantyTok" social media sensation in 2021, Wellington Sea Shanty Society member Lake Davineer remarked that their recording had experienced a new burst of popularity. [3]

In 2021, two pirate metal bands covered "Wellerman"; Alestorm and Storm Seeker. [16] [17] In December 2023, a new version of the song was recorded for the trailer for the upcoming action-adventure game Skull and Bones.[ citation needed ]

The Longest Johns version

"Wellerman"
Wellermanlongestjohns.jpg
Song by the Longest Johns
from the album Between Wind and Water
ReleasedJune 8, 2018
Genre Folk
Length2:18
Label Decca
Producer(s) The Longest Johns

The version of the song recorded by British folk group the Longest Johns (under the name "Wellerman") features as the third track on the group's second studio album, Between Wind and Water (2018). A remix of the song was released on January 12, 2021. [15] [11] [18]

Chart (2021)Peak
position
Canadian Digital Songs (Billboard) [19] 38
UK Singles (OCC) [20] 37

Nathan Evans version

"Wellerman (Sea Shanty)"
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Single by Nathan Evans
ReleasedJanuary 22, 2021 [21]
Genre Folk, pop
Length2:35
Label Polydor
Producer(s) Saltwives
Nathan Evans singles chronology
"Wellerman (Sea Shanty)"
(2021)		"Told You So"
(2021)
Videos
"Wellerman" (music video) on YouTube
"Wellerman" (220 Kid x Billen Ted remix)
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Single by Nathan Evans
ReleasedJanuary 22, 2021
Genre Deep house, pop, electronic
Length1:56
Label Polydor
Songwriter(s)
  • Nathan Evans
  • Alexander Oriet
  • David Phelan
  • William Graydon
  • Samuel Brennan
  • Tom Hollings
Producer(s)
  • 220 Kid
  • Billen Ted
Nathan Evans singles chronology
"Throw It Away"
(2020)		"Wellerman" (220 Kid x Billen Ted remix)
(2021)
220 Kid singles chronology
"Too Many Nights"
(2020)		"Wellerman" (220 Kid x Billen Ted remix)
(2021)		"Unconditional"
(2021)
Digital download [21]
No.TitleLength
1."Wellerman (Sea Shanty)"2:35
Digital download – karaoke version [37]
No.TitleLength
1."Wellerman" (Sea Shanty / karaoke version)2:34
Digital download – 220 Kid x Billen Ted remix [38]
No.TitleLength
1."Wellerman" (Sea Shanty / 220 Kid x Billen Ted remix)1:56
Digital download – 220 Kid x Billen Ted remix karaoke version [39]
No.TitleLength
1."Wellerman" (Sea Shanty / 220 Kid x Billen Ted remix / karaoke version)1:57
Digital download – Argules version [40]
No.TitleLength
1."Wellerman" (Sea Shanty / Nathan Evans x Argules)1:47
Digital download – The Kiffness remix [41]
No.TitleLength
1."Wellerman" (Sea Shanty / The Kiffness remix)3:03
Digital download – Santiano version [42]
No.TitleLength
1."Wellerman" (with Santiano)3:11
CD maxi single [43]
No.TitleLength
1."Wellerman" (Sea Shanty)2:36
2."Wellerman" (Sea Shanty / 220 Kid x Billen Ted remix)1:57
3."Wellerman" (with Santiano)3:11

Personnel

Credits adapted from Discogs. [44]

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Austria (IFPI Austria) [102] 3× Platinum90,000‡
Belgium (BEA) [103] Gold20,000‡
Canada (Music Canada) [104] 4× Platinum320,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [105] Platinum90,000‡
France (SNEP) [106] Diamond333,333‡
Germany (BVMI) [107] Diamond1,000,000‡
Italy (FIMI) [108] Gold50,000‡
Poland (ZPAV) [109] 3× Platinum150,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [110] Gold30,000‡
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [111] Gold10,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [112] 2× Platinum1,200,000‡
United States (RIAA) [113] Gold500,000‡
Streaming
Sweden (GLF) [114] 3× Platinum24,000,000†

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
† Streaming-only figures based on certification alone.

In April 2022, Evans helped publicise the Doctor Who story Legend of the Sea Devils with an adaptation of "Wellerman". [115]

See also

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