1894        Unknown. "English Harvest Songs." _New York Times_ (2 Sept. 1894): 22.

Not much, just a note to add to the pile of voices talking of chanties as if they had died out.

As the sailors' chanties were used to lighten the labor of hauling and heaving before the days of the steam winch and the patent capstan, so were the harvesters' songs required to help the reapers…