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Thread #37548   Message #524038
Posted By: Naemanson
08-Aug-01 - 10:12 PM
Thread Name: What is a Shanty
Subject: RE: What is a Shanty
Please read Barry's definition above. There are many kinds of work songs and shanties are a subset of that genre.

Shanties did come ashore and shore bound work songs went to sea. There was a lot of overlap. Yet the real shanty is as Barry defined it. No more, no less.