Soon May The Wellerman Come TikTok Song and Lyrics 


The song, Soon May The Wellerman Come has recently taken over TikTok at the moment. The song is originally a New Zealand marine ballad.

The song alludes to "wellermen," which refers to supply ships owned by the Weller brothers, who were among the first European settlers in Otago. New Zealand's largest whaling and export enterprise. 

The total song is about 3minutes and 20 seconds long, however, mainly the chorus of the song is trending on TikTok. You can find the full lyrics of the song here. 

And here we will present you with the trending part of the song. The song goes;

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's six verses relate the epic story of a ship, the Billy of Tea, and her crew's fight to land a recalcitrant whale, "for 40 days, or possibly more."

"With the fight at the shanty's end still going on, "the Wellerman pays his regular call, to cheer the Captain, crew, and everyone." 

Wellerman's rediscovery on social media, according to Archer, is due to the shanty's "cheerful energy and upbeat attitude." It is supposed to oppose other more "dreary" whaling tunes.

Millions of people have seen his performance of "Wellerman" and other songs he posted to the app. And they have proven so successful that Evans, 26, was able to quit his work as a mailman after obtaining a record deal with a big music company.

According to NBC News, Polydor Records proposed Evan for the recordings. 

"Sea shanties were designed to urge people to join in, sing along, stomp their feet, clap their hands, keep the spirit up," Evans told NBC News last week, adding that they had managed to unite individuals who had been separated by the coronavirus outbreak.

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Update: Soon May The Wellerman Come Also Referred As Shea Shanty 

Soon May The Wellerman Come is also referred to as Shea Shanty by many of the followers. From "no visitors at all" for much of last year, Archer's Wellerman post has suddenly received millions of views, fueled by the remarkable resurrection of sea shanties on TikTok.

According to The Guardian, Neil Colquhoun, a New Zealand folk music pioneer who died in 2014, initially recorded Wellerman in 1966. He got the music from a man in his 80s who claimed to have learned it from his uncle.

The Wellerman. #seashanty #sea #shanty #viral #singing #acoustic #pirate #new #original #fyp #foryou #foryoupage #singer #scottishsinger #scottish ♬ Wellerman - Sea Shanty - Nathan Evans

Archer discovered shanties written in The Bulletin newspaper in Sydney in 1904.

Wellerman’s composer was a youthful sailor or shore whaler near New Zealand in the late 1830s. He composed the song on landing in Australia and then handed it down to his family around the turn of the century.

The shanty is thought to have spread over the world after being included in Colquhoun's book Songs of a Young Country. The book was published in England in 1972.

"I was singing it in folk clubs with others 40 years ago," Archer recalls.

Wellerman is currently being promoted by Spotify as part of its new "sea season" playlist, which celebrates "centuries-old tunes gone viral." That recording, by Bristol band The Longest Johns, has had 8.5 million recent listens.

Though the song, Soon May The Wellerman Come dates back to 1900 as a New Zealand marine ballad song by shipmaster. 

The Longest Johns' rendition was recorded in late 2019 when the sea shanty fad was just getting started on the internet. 

The band, which consists of Jonathan 'JD' Darley, Andy Yates, Robbie Sattin, and Dave Robinson, has spent the previous eight years singing sea shanties at festivals around the UK and has amassed a tiny but devoted following.

The Longest Johns enabled Twitch streamers to use their music in the background of their streams for free at the end of 2020, and one song, in particular, exploded: Wellerman.

However, the song came became viral in early 2021 after Nathan Evans released the song on his TikTok. The version by Scottish musician Evans became popular on the social media site TikTok.

It sparked a "social media frenzy" surrounding songs labeled as sea shanties. So, as of now, unless you've been living under a rock for the past year, you're aware that TikTok has sparked the latest global music trend: sea shanties.

Because the song's rhythm and lyrics are catchy and interesting, it will stay on the tip of your tongue once you've listened to it. You can explore more videos here, and take inspiration to create your own videos.