Very, very nice!

"Ride Down" sounds right to me.

Notable: the excellent voices, the constant encouragement to the shantyman (a West Indian trait?), the appearance of "Shenandoah," and the fact that the shanty consist of just two or three stanzas repeated ad lib.

Since shantying sailors were *workmen* and not *entertainers,* that was presumably a not-infrequent practice. That, plus the use of spur-of-the-moment lyrics and floating verses reinforces Bullen's feeling that only one or two stanzas were specific to any shanty. And as I've observed before, Carpenter's texts are also usually brief.

Some well-known shanties, like "Blow the Man Down" and "Boney," seem to have carried texts that maintained a certain amount of integrity. Less familiar songs may have been far more fluid.