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A big Hamburger was leaving Pont Levis and her crew, unshipping the platform railings, began to sing "Elsinore"--the oldest of our chanteys. You know it of course:

'Danny Deever,' 'Pharaoh and the Sergeant,' 'Fuzzy Wuzzy,' 'The Ballad of East and West,' 'The Last Chantey,' 'Mulholland's Contract,' and many others, are splendidly stirring, but their colloquialism and general realism put them on a very different level from the work of the great masters who express the deeper truths in forms of permanent beauty.

The ensemble performs a variety of music from traditional choral music to sea chanteys and patriotic fare, as well as Broadway and contemporary music.

Yet Maryland's soundscape also includes militia quicksteps, sea chanteys, and other work songs.

MenckenAEs Saturday Night Club; the writing of oThe Star Spangled Bannero; forms of music like militia quicksteps, sea chanteys, and work songs; and classical institutions.

As they sailed to many West Africa ports, "they spread a basic, cross-fingered playing style as they sang tunes influenced by English sea chanteys and West Indian airs." (33) Then, as the style filtered into Sierra Leone, it became known as maringa or more colloquially, "palm wine music." It was played on the inland "palm wine" acoustic guitar style, and the music was usually "played at bars where the locally fermented beverage was served." (34)

Sea chanteys, monologues about sustainable aquaculture and a sprinkling of zombie antics peppered a meal one experienced with strangers who became dinner companions at communal tables.

To mark anyvery unusual occasion, such as the time I saw a rat leap high in the airand catch a fly in its lips, I'd yell "All magnify thenext Ra!" or din Ary an harvest chanteys in my tiny cell.

Walton is credited with gathering a great deal of sailing folklore, including many "chanteys": songs sung while work was being done.

On "Black Sails,'' expect no snarling, swashbuckling or chanteys of "yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum,'' however much rum may be actually quaffed.

The use of synchronized movements to music helped in accomplishing large human work projects throughout history, such as singing work songs while building a railroad or sea chanteys while working a boat.