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::Subject: RE: New evidence for 'shanty' origins?
From: Charley Noble - PM
Date: 28 Sep 11 - 04:15 PM

I'm also sure that the boatmen rowing the bateaux to deal with logjams would also sing rowing shanties from time to time. But the only traditional song that describes these bateaux is "Jump-Her Juberju" as collected by Frank Warner from John Galusha of Minerva, New York, and that's for entertainment.::

~M~