Oystering songs: There's the "Geoduck" song from Seattle I believe. This has been recorded in Japanese A version goes like
Chorus:
Dig a duck, dig a duck, Dig a gooey duck Dig a duck, dig a gooey duck Dig a duck a day
You can hear the digger say As he's headed for the bay I gotta dig a duck, gotta dig a duck a day
Cause I get a buck a duck If I dig a duck a day So I gotta dig a duck, Gotta dig a duck a day
They walk across the sand About a half a mile from land To dig a gooey duck You dig him up by hand But it isn't much trouble And you don't use a shovel You find a gooey duck By looking for the bubble
It take a lot of luck And a certain kind of pluck To dig around the muck To get a gooey duck Cause he doesn't have a front And he doesn't have a back And he doesn't know Donald And he doesn't go, "Quack!"
From the Chessapeake Bay there's also the "Shanghied Dredger". A early 19th century round from Baltimore called "Go It Jerry" contains an oyster vendors cry as one of its verses