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shanty, in music: see chantey chantey or shanty (both: shăn`tē) ..... Click the link for more information. . shanty1 1. a ramshackle hut; crude dwelling 2. formerly, in Canada a. a log bunkhouse at a lumber camp b. the camp itself shanty2, shantey, chanty (US), chantey a song originally sung by sailors, esp a rhythmic one forming an accompaniment to work. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Sharing a narrow, lumpy bed with him that night in the beer-soaked Angel Inn while a folk band cranked out sea shanties downstairs, I felt as if I too had slept with Dante's bones. But their graying flower child eclecticism would just be a goof if this wasn't also a crack old-timey string band, great at harmonizing, phrasing and arranging everything from sea shanties to freedom hymns to yodeling lullabies, with one of Bob Dylan's stranger chestnuts, ``The Wicked Messenger,'' tossed in for good measure. Children would watch men in sailor outfits sing sea shanties and play the concertina. |
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