Tim, most if not all heavy work done at sea by a merchant crew, was done to song (1 man singing was worth 10 on a line, or something like that). Anchor songs (slower & could drag on for hours) could be used at the capstan or windlass, capstan could also be used for hoisting sail by mechanical mean or warping into or out of the dock, halyard shanties: long haul for heavey sail, short haul for lighter sails, hand over hand halyard for for'sls like the jib & stays'ls or braces, bunting for hauling the sail, belly over the yard, the last few feet so as to secure the sail to the yard, stamp & go or run away shanties, with a line over the shoulder & crew running, hauling the braces, sweating up would have a shantyman standing on the rail leaning into the halyard the hands hauled out the slack & pumping had the downtown pumps, the up & down or jiggerty jig pumps very close to the motion of the brake or windless pumps. Some of the anchor songs would only be used as outward bound shanties, others only as homeward bound & then some only sung in certain trades & wouldn't normally be heard elsewhere & some very specific, like 'The First Of the Emigrants' outward bound from England to Australia with emigrants as cargo durning the Australian gold rush era Sorry for going on & on & on ....... Barry