An American shanty group called The Boarding Party sang a stanza at Mystic in 1988 (with Hugill in attendance) which, to judge from a parallel in Randolph's collection, is entirely consistent with tradition : Sally in the kitchen making duff, The cheeks of her ass go chuff, chuff, chuff. 2005. Paul Stamler quotes Jonathan Lighter on the BALLAD-L email list serv. in the Camouflaged shanties, Pt. 7 (long) thread. I don't currently have access to the original emails.
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