chantey

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Noun

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chantey (plural chanteys)

  1. Alternative form of shanty (sailor's song).
    • 1906, Stewart Edward White, Buried Treasure:
      Then we had a mouth-organ solo or two, which naturally led on to songs. My turn came. I struck up the first verse of a sailor chantey as possessing at least the interest of novelty.

      Oh once we were a-sailing, a-sailing were we;
      Blow high, blow low, what care we;
      And we were a-sailing to see what we could see,
      Down on the coast of the High Barbaree.