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20774	nan	The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties			.txt	text/plain	14678	1667	89	'Sea Songs, Ships, and Shanties'--can be regarded as authoritative. and is an exact musical parallel of a seaman's 'pull-and-haul' shanty. required points in the music, just as sailors did when hauling at sea. Shanties were labour songs sung by sailors of the merchant service word 'shanty,' rhyming with 'scanty' (_as every sailor did_), _Sea Songs, Ships, and Shanties_, by Capt. one who has heard them sung aboard the old sailing ships, his versions contains altogether about thirty-two shanties collected from sailors _Sailor Shanties arranged for Solo and Chorus of Men's Like many other folk-songs, certain shanties--originally, no doubt, in sailors singing in the major, nowadays, tunes which the very old men course I have had sailors sing shanties to me in a fine declamatory upon isolated versions of shanties sung by individual old men. This is another of the shanties I learnt as a boy from Blyth sailors,	./cache/20774.txt	./txt/20774.txt