Giving a whole new meaning to rambling discussion here but, you should find a celeuma or three running around down yonder somewheres.

Believe it or don't Gibb, you're as close to Grandma Conchy's theory on the origins as any I've ever heard, it's why the thread title caught me… wrong genus & species mind you...

Her folklore said the common link between a shanty shack and a chanty song was cantharellus cibarius.

Because shanties pop up like mushrooms overnight and the fungus is called that because, like a good chant, it has that little "umpf" (ie: pepper) to it.

PS: Don't know about all that but Grams chanty crisps were to die for.