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shan·tey

 (shăn′tē)
n.
Variant of chantey.
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White, American Negro Folk-Songs (1928); Franz Rickaby, Ballads and Songs of the Shantey Boy (1926), lumberjack songs; William Main Doerflinger, Shanteymen and Shanteyboys (1951), sea chanties; John Greenway, American Folksongs of Protest (1953); and Olive Wooley Burt, American Murder Ballads (1958).
Folksongs and ballads

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