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Sailors' songs and shanties

by Hurd, Michael

Folk songsHistory and criticismSea songs

Describes the importance of the sea shanty to the life of the sailor at sea, explains the role of the shantyman, and presents various folk songs of the sea and the work to which they were sung.

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