Stan Hugill was the last working shantyman of the sailing ships, and this is his great collection: hundreds of work songs with their tunes, their words and the jobs they were sung to. The standard book on the subject since 1961.
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Shanties from the Seven Seas
Shipboard Work-Songs from the Great Days of Sail
Stan Hugill
Paperback · Globe Pequot · 2022
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