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Stan Hugill referred to Mobile as the "Shanty Mart," as a place where many shanties were created and than redistributed across the wide world by sailors.

William Doerflinger in SONGS OF THE SAILOR AND LUMBERMAN, p. 98, focuses on Mobile as one of the first places (late 1840's) where the term "chanty-man" was used by an observer; Charles Nordhoff provides a vivid description of the cotton-stowers singing songs to help them with their hard work. "Fire Maringo" was just one of the sing titles he mentions by name.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble