FOR BEFRIENDED BROADCASTERS

...It took us long enough! Below, please find songs from our "A morze tak, a może nie..." album nominated as 1st Runner-Up to 2005 CARA Award in the category of the Best World/Folk Album 2005, the Christmas carrols from our "Banana Boat... Świątecznie" minialbum and other songs we have recorded but never included in any recorded project. Please remember: we are 100% a cappella!

Love and peace!

Banana Boat

P.S.: Please, make sure that no one but for yourselves has access to files, or we will not sell another album!

A morze tak, a może nie...

The album mostly collects our own compositions, but apart from these, you will also enjoy a few well-known hits written by other artists, and a few traditional songs, drawn from the rich treasury of Euro-American folklore. A morze tak, a może nie... is an album dedicated to every one of you, who have so much fun at our gigs and who enjoy the "Banana-style." Without you, our work would simply make no sense at all. Here is what you will find in the album:


1. Uspokojeni (Intro) - At Peace
2. Panta Rhei
3. Do Calais! - To Calais!
4. Słodka mała - Sweet Little Babe
5. Arktyka - Lady Arctic
6. Les filles des forges
7. Orabajo
8. Requiem dla Nieznajomych PrzyjacióÅ‚ z Bieszczadów - Requiem for Unknown Friends from s/y "Bieszczady"
9. Nawigator - The Navigator
10. Nowy Åšwiat - The New World
11. Z portu! Dalej! - Into Town!
12. Day-oh! (Banana Boat Song)
13. Negroszanta - The Negro Shanty
14. Round the Bay of Mexico
15. Zęza - Pumping the Bilges
16. A morze tak, a może nie... - We will sea...



Banana Boat... ÅšwiÄ…tecznie

1. Gdy Å›liczna panna... (When the Virgin of Beauty...) – lyrics/mel. trad. Polish (17th century), arr. Tomasz Czarny (download a videoclip)

2. Gaudete – lyrics/mel. trad. – a part of the Piae Cantiones collection (found in Finland ca. 1582), arr. Tomasz Czarny

3. Przybieżeli do Betlejem (When Shepherds Came to Bethlehem) – lyrics/mel. trad. Polish (attributed to Jan Å»abczyc, 17th century), arr. Antonina Szybowska

4. Joy to the World – lyrics by Isaac Watts (The Psalms of David, 1719), mel. Antioch, Georg F. Haendel, (1742), arr. Tomasz Czarny

5. Dzisiaj w Betlejem (In Bethlehem Today) – lyrics/mel. trad. Polish (17th century), arr. Antonina Szybowska

6. Deck the Halls – lyrics trad. (USA, 19th century), mel. trad. (Wales, 18th century), arr. Tomasz Czarny

BONUS:

Giżycko - lyrics Paweł Jędrzejko, mel/arr. Tomasz Czarny