Greg I think that is an interesting point. Canoeing has a commercial and 150 year + tradition. It seems to me commercial use of the Canoe and the days of shanties from the sailing whaling and merchant ships run pretty much parallel and I would expect some more paddleing songs to come out of that. The kayak was used more in a subsistence mode and the lore would not migrate as with commercial traffic I'd guess. Still kayaking for sport and recreation has been around long enough that I chide acoustic guitar strumming, zither plucking kayak paddling dulcimer players for not having done more!