Stairwell sea shanty

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1. Tiktok

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2. With acoustic basketball and organ

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3. Ragtime

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4. Blues for saxophone quartet

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5. Multi-instrumental

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6. Vienna Boys Choir

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7. Violet

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8. With Ievan Polkka

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9. OMG YA'LL! I sampled the OP and each of the others, fantastic.

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10. I always had heard it as sea chanty (back when I was a folkie) ...

Sea shanty

A sea shanty, chantey, or chanty is a genre of traditional folk song that was once commonly sung as a work song to accompany rhythmical labor aboard large merchant sailing vessels. They were found mostly on British and other European ships, and some had roots in lore and legend.

The term shanty most accurately refers to a specific style of work song belonging to this historical repertoire. However, in recent, popular usage, the scope of its definition is sometimes expanded to admit a wider range of repertoire and characteristics, or to refer to a "maritime work song" in general.

Of uncertain etymological origin, the word shanty emerged in the mid-19th century in reference to an appreciably distinct genre of work song, developed especially on merchant vessels that had come to prominence in the decades prior to the American Civil War, although were found before this.

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It was interesting to hear how many different ways "Wellerman" stands up as a song and performance.

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11. I would bet on a derivation from French "chanter" (SHAN-tee)

appearing anglicized as both chanty and shanty, the first one being pronounced (taking into account the vagaries of dialect and of anglo-american spelling) as both chan-tee and shan-tee

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12. Well, me trying to choose the "correct" spelling would entail a "mansplain too far!" ...

... I had an album of sea shanties when I was 12, and I wish I hadn't let it disappear.

Can't remember the title or artists, but I still remember bits of songs from it. A lot of them were whalers rowing songs.

Thankyou for posting this, I'll be listening to it for a while.