There are so many great sea shanty's and ballards, most of which I came across as part of a male voice "Fishermans Chior" while a ex-pat in the middle East many years ago. Like Heart of Oak; The Greenland Whale Fisheries and Shoals of Herring (the latter by Erin MacColl), but my favorite has to be Three Score and Ten, telling of the loss of so many fishermen from Grimsby and the East coast of England following the great storm of 1800 and something