Songs some sailors sing

Usage examples of chanteys.

Several of them began to sing chanteys, but they weren't the same chantey.

Laughter overcame her, erasing her previous embarrassment at thoughts that could have held their own with those lewd sea chanteys he'd mentioned.

He learned the short and long haul chanteys, the one quick and nervous and the other a slow, swinging rhythm.

The English shouted tuneless chanteys, swaying their bodies to preserve the rhythm.

They rendered roistering chanteys of the sea, and there was much more volume than music.

The work chanteys that Gralior's men had sung as they hauled up sail or worked the capstan bar were coarse and repetitive, not truly music to my ear.