BTW -- re Dickens. I had some correspondence with Hugill about Captain Cuttle in Dombey and Son singing what I took to be, and he confirmed probably was, a bit of "Cheer'ly, men"; only the Captain's version only sang "Cheer'ly" without the "men", which was why I wrote with the query. But it does seem that Dickens was, as we would say today, 'shanty-conscious', as the gravamen of this thread would seem to suggest.

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