The Shark Alley Hobos pay tribute to the Purple One with this sea shanty infused version of When Doves Cry. Stay tuned to the end for the rousing “Purple Danny Boy”…

While making their first (and last) appearance at the Northern California Pirate Festival, the Hobos were missing their fallen leader Mike Lee. Squinty and One Eyed Jack remembered

The Shark Alley Hobos pay tribute to the Purple One with this sea shanty infused version of When Doves Cry. Stay tuned to the end for the rousing “Purple Danny Boy”…

While making their first (and last) appearance at the Northern California Pirate Festival, the Hobos were missing their fallen leader Mike Lee. Squinty and One Eyed Jack remembered that they had always wanted to form a Prince tribute band called Darling Mikki and the Beautiful Ones. While reminiscing over a Mai Tais and a giant turkey leg, Squinty and One Eyed Jack grew tired of watching the other Hobos watching the belly dancing act—and began to dream big. What if the Hobos did the entire Purple Rain album sea shanty style? Within minutes, the sea shanty version of When Doves Cry was born! Will the dream of Purple Rain sea shanty style--maybe with belly dancers--ever be realized? Probably not, but reality has never stopped the Shark Alley Hobos…

Raise a glass to the Purple One and sing along with the chorus!

Performed by the Shark Alley Hobos

Written by Prince

Cover art by Smokey Joe (aka Ken Jacobs)

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Dumpstah Dave (aka Dave Bell) at Bellboy Recording Studios

El Che Records 2017

The Shark Alley Hobos get back to their roots with the traditional sea shanty Sally Brown. A tale of love, lust and loss. Every choirboy-turned-pirate’s fantasy is to share a bed with Sally Brown…or Sally Brown’s daughter! Enjoy this bawdy, rowdy version of a classic sea shanty!

Performed by the Shark Alley Hobos

Cover art by Smokey Joe (aka Ken

The Shark Alley Hobos get back to their roots with the traditional sea shanty Sally Brown. A tale of love, lust and loss. Every choirboy-turned-pirate’s fantasy is to share a bed with Sally Brown…or Sally Brown’s daughter! Enjoy this bawdy, rowdy version of a classic sea shanty!

Performed by the Shark Alley Hobos

Cover art by Smokey Joe (aka Ken Jacobs)

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Dumpstah Dave (aka Dave Bell) at Bellboy Recording Studios

El Che Records 2017

Men of the Cloth was written by Mikie Lee and Che while they were in England taking a songwriting course from one of the Shark Alley Hobos’ music heroes, Ray Davies from the Kinks. Mikie and Che were assigned the task of writing a song for the two priest characters for a musical based on the 1963 British movie The Servant. Ray laughed out loud

Men of the Cloth was written by Mikie Lee and Che while they were in England taking a songwriting course from one of the Shark Alley Hobos’ music heroes, Ray Davies from the Kinks. Mikie and Che were assigned the task of writing a song for the two priest characters for a musical based on the 1963 British movie The Servant. Ray laughed out loud during the performance which Che and Mikie thought could be a good sign or bad sign but were too afraid to ask…

This Shark Alley Hobos song has a few surprises. The coolest one is that the bridge is sung by our dearly missed leader Mikie Lee (from a demo he and Che recorded in England while writing the song). It was an honor to sing along with Mikie once again! At the very end of the song you can hear Mikie and Che walking the grounds of an English castle talking about nothing in particular, a conversation that is now a treasured moment in time.

The song features some archaic phrases that might need some explaining such as:

• Men of the Cloth: priests
• Admirals of the red: heavy drinkers
• Beat your gums: idle chatter
• Tooth music: making loud sounds while eating

We hope you enjoy this new song that reunites Mikie Lee with his crew of Hobos!

Performed by the Shark Alley Hobos Cover art by Ken Jacobs Recorded, mixed and mastered by Dave Bell at Bellboy Recording Studios El Che Records 2017