sailor songs
Nautical work music
Sailor songs are work songs and ballads traditionally sung by sailors aboard ships.
Sea shanties, the most familiar type, synchronized group labor like hauling ropes or raising anchors: The crew broke into a sailor song as they weighed anchor.
The genre includes both rhythmic work songs and sentimental ballads about the sea, home, and lost loves.
- sea shantySailors' coordinating work song
- shantyRamshackle dwelling
- sea chantySailors' coordinated work song
- heave-hoForcible, informal ejection
- haul awayRemove by transporting
hornpipe · maritime · deck · anchor · tall ship · waves · rum · rum ration · tavern · accordion · fiddle · voyage · rolling home · mast · rigging · capstan · whaling · fo'c'sle
rough/bawdy vs refined/genteel musical tradition
sailor songslieder
Archaic word for songs
madrigals · chamber music · hymns · sacred music · devotional songs
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