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Shanties From The Seven Seas,
Titel:
Shanties From The Seven Seas
Naam uitgever:
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM
Jaar van uitgave:
First Published 1961
Taal:
Engels
Aantal pagina's:
430
Plaats van uitgave:
Connecticut
Auteur:
Collected by Stan Hugill
THE ART OF THE SHANTYMAN
many odd corners which mechanization cannot reach. Here the stones are split by metal wedges with men wielding heavy mauls. And, as they swing the mauls—in the manner of Negro railroad gangs of Young America—they sing sailor shanties, two men working on one wedge and striking it alternately at different words in the song. Roll the Old Chariot is a general favourite. This singing at work has been going on for years, the shanties having been brought ashore by west country seamen who became quarrymen. As well as shanties, hymns and popular songs are used and also chants such as Now boys! High ho! One song has a refrain 'Round, round!' Work-songs, in olden days, were to be found in every country and
in almost every trade. From the canoe hauling songs of the New Zealand Maori to the waulking songs of the Hebrides may seem a long traverse, but they all had one thing in common with the sailor shanty, and that is they were used to lighten labour. In Atlantic, Vol. 146, p. 28 (August 1930) appears a 'track-lining chantey', in other words a railroad work-song, but the collector, incorrectly, has referred to it as a 'chantey'. Obviously at the back of his mind he classifies all work-songs as 'chanties'—a natural classification, for the shanty was the work-song par excellence. And to conclude our theme, here, where I work, at the Outward
Bound Sea School, Aberdovey, we also do our best to keep the shanty alive. We often have 'shanty evenings', but as well as these we sing these old halyard songs in true deepwater fashion whilst hauling cutters up to be scraped and painted, hoisting our lifeboat at the davits, and doing many other 'pulley-hauley' jobs, and when we had the ketch Warspite we also made use of capstan songs as the lads stamped round her brass capstan raising the mud-hook. I hope we shall be able to keep these old songs and their spirit ahve for many years to come.
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