chantey
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And you can bet we’ll be singing a sea chantey in his honor when it happens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
In Week 1420, prompted by the TikTok sea chantey craze, we asked for songs about a particular job, or to work by.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2021
The way he punches certain words gives his speech the inexhaustible quality of a sea chantey.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
Also Eddie Vedder’s pro-Cubs sea chantey is fantastic.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 1, 2018
Just thinking about it prompted Penelope to start humming the wordless little sea chantey that Simon had been whistling earlier.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Ike, a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina, sang sea chanteys on the beaches of Martha’s Vineyard, where the Taylors summered.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2016
Dylan sings ancient ballads, folk standards, 12-bar blues, drinking songs, sea chanteys, early rock ‘n’ roll and novelty tunes.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2014
"The varied score draws on the antique sounds of sea chanteys, and often has a heavily Celtic sound — with a little Kurt Weill thrown in for good measure," said the New York Times.
From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2014
He and his bandmates dig into the deep treasures underlying American roots music, taking on everything from old Carter Family songs to Irish sea chanteys.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jun. 20, 2013
He spent his days muttering dyspeptically to himself and singing naughty sea chanteys, with the occasional random earsplitting screech thrown in just to make you jump.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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