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Thread #167430   Message #4175765
Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
28-Jun-23 - 11:43 PM
Thread Name: Maritime work song in general
Subject: RE: Maritime work song in general
“YE FISHERMEN OF BRITAIN.

…Let 'Harbours deep, and Beacons clear!'
        Be the burden of your song;+...

+ While straining at the oar, the Greek mariners had their celeusma to give them heart (as the word imports), and enable them to keep time with their stroke. So it is with our modern crews. One of the rude rhyming couplets, used by the 'Buckiemen,' which we have heard in our boyish days, we still remember:
        'It's you the day, and me the morn;
        Johnnie Hunter, blow your horn.'”
[Hogg's Weekly Instructor, 1850]