Seaman Dan's lyrics & chords

Henry "Seaman" Dan (born 1929), known universally as Seaman Dan, is a Torres Strait Islander (Australian) singer-songwriter with a national and international reputation whose did not release his first recording until the age of 70, in the year 2000. His album "Perfect Pearl" won him an ARIA award for Best World Music Album in 2004. Seaman Dan was born on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait in far-north Queensland, Australia. His grandfather was a boat captain from Jamaica and his great grand mother a chief's daughter from Great New Caledonia....read more