AHOY, here is your sea shanty fact for today! There were different types of shanties for different types of work. The Wellerman is probably a heaving shanty - a ballad meant to help pass the time in the several-hour job of hauling up a huge anchor or hauling in a huge whale.
Another example of a heaving shanty is Away Rio.
But another type is the short-haul shanty, for short jobs hauling smaller sails. My favorite of this type is Boney which is just a bunch of Napoleanic War insults. The sailors would pull on the "YAH!" and the "John Fran-COIS!"
Another short-haul shanty is Haul Away Joe, here with slightly awkward audience hauling demo!
However much I want to, I can't tweet about shanties all day, but the @whalingmuseum has an amazing booklet online here where you can read SO. MUCH. MORE. https://www.whalingmuseum.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Sea%20Chantey%27s%20and%20Sailors%3B%20Songs.pdf
Later today if I have time - long-haul shanties!
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