Not a shanty but...

My son heard this performed at the South Street Seaport as part of a Shanty Afternoon and came home talking about nothing else. This was when he was deep into rap. The song was "The Golden Vanity" and the story outraged him. He was about 12 at the time.
When I played a couple of different recordings for him and sang the version I knew he suddenly developed an interest in my music.
Unfortunately (or fortunately) he started to incorporate snippets of reel to reel folk into his rap recordings, but not the Vanity. It's still his favorite song.