Ron--

That's why I've put the note "a funky experiment"!! ...and why the playlist is a dumping space for my odds and ends: "...and other sailor songs"!

What actually happened is that one of my viewers on YouTube made the request that I do "Chicken on a Raft." I wasn't too keen on it, because my focus is traditional songs and especially shanties. But I also like the interactive side of things, and decided to honor the request with a compromise: I adapted the song so that it had a form and rhythm that was conducive to a chanty. So...while it is not a shanty in the sense of belonging to the documented repertoire of songs that were used for work, it is in the tradition of adapting songs for the purpose.