That wan't no rum and woman song, that was the old 'Whisky, Johnny' chantey. |
In Helen Mirra's video The Ballad of Myra Furrow, the artist, dressed in a peacoat and cap, sings a sea chantey as she stands before Lake Michigan in the drizzling rain. |
The '80s pirate renaissance also demonstrated that pirates love nothing more than a boisterous sea chantey. |
Then, far across the harbor, I heard the great voice of a chantey man singing while the crew heaved at the windlass. |
They spoke in a ribald and rhythmic way, singing out the odds like a sea chantey. |
He was piecing out the chantey and fitting words to it, and succeeding rather well. |