HOpe your sing went superbly well and that someone will be able to help me. Looking for real info on categories of sea songs for my Phila Folk Song Society monthly column; Please confirm fill in or???
1. Fo'c'sle --not work song, stories, adventures,lonesome,maybe chorus
2. Capstan Shanty.Anchor raising? slower, call and response? example??
3. Long haul??Mainsail? Run and go? Example?
4. Short haul?????Example? Just titles will be fine. Can look up.
Fifty years in folk music, have sung shanties but am too much of a landlubber to have accurate background info.
HOpe you can help me..
Tried to reach B.J. Whitehouse in RI to no avail