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Thread #37548   Message #523992
Posted By: Charley Noble
08-Aug-01 - 08:36 PM
Thread Name: What is a Shanty
Subject: RE: What is a Shanty
Another qualification. The work songs also show clear evidence of being adapted from one work situation to another. A song like "Old Moke" in terms of chorus and verse is neatly devided between shipboard and railroading. And I'm sure some sailors moved ashore and lumbered and sang some their own songs in the work camps for entertainment, maybe even a shanty or two. So I put this to you, Barry, if a sailor sings a "shanty" in the forest is the song still a "shanty"?