OMG! Great find, Gibb. I don't recall coming across a mention of specific songs for holystoning in my reading of late. However, in "Voice of the Waters," Laura Alexandrine Smith wrote (in 1888) that "there are chanties used when holy-stoning the decks, and when stowing away the cargo," and that further "one may safely conclude that every one of Jack's duties, from Monday morning to Saturday night, is done to some sort of music..."
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