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A sea shanty, shanty, chantey, or chanty (/ ˈ ʃ æ n t iː /) is a genre of traditional folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large merchant sailing vessels.
The song is numbered 1778 in the Roud Folk Song Index and it has been passed from singer to singer as a traditional shanty. The figure of "ten thousand miles" could well refer to the distance between England and Australia, and the separation of the lovers arises because the singer's lover has been transported .
There's a spanking full-rigger just ready for sea. That spanking full-rigger to New York was bound; She was very well manned and very well found. And as soon as that packet was out on the sea, 'Twas devilish hard treatment of every degree. But as soon as that packet was clear of the bar The mate knocked me down with the end of a spar.
If you’re not already singing along to a bunch of 19th-century songs about whale hunting, then dive into this sea of shanties. British group The Longest Johns helped the digital revival of sea ...
She has combined jazz and English sea shanties with Cape Verdean rhythms - including the funaná, played on an iron rod with a knife and the accordion, and the batuque, played by women and based ...
Cooped-up sailors who felt the same way on long ocean journeys broke up the tedium with work songs called sea shanties. TikTok helped sea shanties surge into the mainstream. People began using the ...
Work songs sung by sailors between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries are known as sea shanties. These songs were typically performed while adjusting the rigging, raising anchor, and other tasks where men would need to pull in rhythm. These songs usually have a very punctuated rhythm precisely for this reason, along with a call-and-answer ...
A leading maritime music scholar marvels at the virality of #ShantyTok, as a nation of teens and 20-somethings howl about sugar and tea and rum.