Yeah hear you talkin Martin.--not put down by that ! We have lots of Canal Shanties here in the midlands too---songs of haunted barges, canal buchaneers,lock pirates, flatland privateers,lonesome cabin buoys, uncharted and perch infested waters, Deep Ellem district in Shannon Harbour etc ,etc. Bet ther are some Shannon Shanties too ,even if if they were not sung at Seans. We shipped on board of a Shannon Bridge liner wey hey --etc.
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