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Thread #57499 Message #904460
Posted By: michaelr
05-Mar-03 - 10:45 PM
Thread Name: What exactly is a sea shanty?
Subject: RE: What exactly is a sea shanty?
Shanties, in general, are work songs. (There are numerous Canadian lumberjack shanties, for example... not written by Monty Python.) Sea shanties are songs about the work of sailors.