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Thread #128220   Message #3450725
Posted By: Gibb Sahib
11-Dec-12 - 07:45 PM
Thread Name: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Subject: RE: The Advent and Development of Chanties
Lighter, I also think that Drunken Sailor counts as a "real" shanty. But that is by my inclusive and ex post facto definition of "shanty." When I am thinking specifically of shanties as a body of songs developed in the merchant trade for double pulls on the halyards and heaving windlasses (my category, to be sure), I tend to qualify DS.