I was doing a sing around on Pal Talk the other Sunday. It was me and five or six folks from England. I received a message at the bottom of the screen asking about my nicname "Sod Shanty" and was that a song about cursing sailors? I replied that no, a sod shanty was an earthen house built on the American Great Plains by the pioneers because there were no trees to use for lumber. Sod=earth Shanty=a hovel, or hut. Actually, some sod houses were quite nice with real glass windows, and wood floors.
Jim