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Posted By: Gibb Sahib
29-Sep-11 - 09:10 PM
Thread Name: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Subject: RE: The Advent and Development of Chanties
1879        Featon, John. The Waikato War 1863-4. Capper Press.

ca.1863 New Zealand, during the Waikato War. Pg69. Deep-water shanties adapted for rowing, with SHENADOAH and an ambiguous other.
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The majority of the men who volunteered for the Water Transport Corps, were, as may be imagined, those who had been used to a sea-faring life, and accustomed to boats and rowing. They were a rough-and-tumble lot, and many are the wild stories told of their escapades. The boats' crews (8 and 12 oars), used generally to sweep up against the stream to the chorus of a sailors shanty song, "I'm bound away," or "Ye rolling rivers," usurping the canoe chant of the natives.
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