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 | | Two or three songs would be tried, one after the other, with no effect;—not an inch could be got upon the tackles—when a new song, struck up, seemed to hit the humor of the moment, and drove the tackles “two blocks” at once. |
| | While the ballad and the shantey are indeed a little different, one is for work and one for entertaining, in the 20th century the term "shantey", is usually applied in the modern sense to include both types of songs. |
| | A song is as necessary to sailors as the drum and fife to a soldier. |
| privateer.omena.org /seashanty.htm (6105 words) |
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