Chanties

The motion of the boat, the wind in the sails, the "chanties" of the sailors as they went about their work, and the evident content and happiness around him made Harry laugh and sing and toss away his cap and let the fresh salt wind blow on his hot brain in which he fancied the clack and clamor of the looms still lingered. ❋ Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1875)

But we ain't heard nothin' yet: One highlight of Tuesday's performance at Sofia's was "Salty," a nautical-but-nice medley of old-time sea chanties set in a snappy foxtrot circa 1926. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

By this time the singing stage was reached, and I joined Scotty and the harpooner in snatches of sea songs and chanties. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As written, and as played by Shaw -- who shows, in comparison to his crisp Soviet assassin who is nearly a match for Sean Connery's Bond in From Russia With Love, that 12 years is ample time to go to seed -- Quint is far too prone to "colorful" sea chanties and eccentric half-witticisms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The requisite grizzled old salt, Mr. Stubb, pipe clenched between his teeth, was sung by Robert Orth, who succeeded in making his character a beloved comic figure in short order and led the local-color-providing sea-chanties (the chorus was also very strong). ❋ Unknown (2010)

According to the pirate legend, after months at sea, pillaging and singing sea chanties, the marauders had to stop in at a pirate-friendly settlement to unload their looted cargo, load up on supplies, and visit the local taverns and brothels. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Waves slosh through all of his books, whose titles sound like the names of sea chanties: “Sea of Glory,” “Away Off Shore,” “Second Wind,” and “In the Heart of the Sea,” the winner of the 2000 National Book Award for nonfiction. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Sea and river chanties of the early 1800s such as Shenandoah were adapted and used by settlers migratng west. ❋ Schoenherr, Steven (2005)

Mr. Barker played the squeeze box and sang sea chanties. ❋ Stabenow, Dana (2003)

“Galley-rat sea.” she went on, knowing several verses, it appeared, each worse than the last in the usual tradition of sea chanties and determined to sing all of them. ❋ PATRICIA CABOT (2001)

From that they passed to chanties, after which the convicts—the crew heard them singing often—were begged for a song or two. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)

Eddie would play his guitar and sing sea chanties, or he and Margo, whose voices blended like velvet, would harmonize on Mexican folk songs. ❋ Betty White (1995)

It has not been the purpose of this sketch of a poem's history, with which has been joined other matters, reminiscent or germane, to enter into a discussion relative to the origin of chanties, or to attempt to trace the four lines of Captain Billy Bones 'song to any source beyond their appearance in "Treasure Island." ❋ Champion Ingraham Hitchcock (N/A)

They brought with them color and care-free prodigality and a capacity for abandonment to pleasure that ran the whole gamut of emotions, from raucous-roared chanties to sudden, swift encounters which were as silent as they were deadly. ❋ Larry Evans (N/A)

Cowboy songs, sea chanties, and ballads many years old were often on call. ❋ Dama Margaret Smith (1932)

A battered Naval Song Book was propped up on the music-rest -- more from habit than necessity, since the Indiarubber Man could not read a note of music and everybody knew the words of the time-honoured chanties. ❋ 1886-1967 Bartimeus (1926)

The breeze was crooning softly through the branches of the trees, singing weird chanties to itself. ❋ James Morgan Walsh (1924)

Officers and men are singing chanties over their arduous work. ❋ Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)

Christmas Day; the chanties we sang all over the Barrier as we marched our ponies along. ❋ Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)

Yo Grace is so hot!! [Yeah i know] but [she a] [Chanty] , "Even Better!!!" [She a] real Chanty she has been smokeing since she was 12. ❋ DidiAybar (2016)

Don't [mess with] [that girl], she's a [Lil'] Chanti! ❋ Nayvayvaynjb (2011)

chanty, chanty, chanty, chanty: [cray] [crew], cray crew ❋ Searchpeople (2013)

Chanti is [cool] but [you don't want] to get chanti'ed. ❋ Dragons Are Not Lizards (2014)

Chantis has [big boobs] Chantis has [really] [soft lips] ❋ LibbyDaCious (2011)

“[Chanty]’s so cute and [innocent]” bruh she’s [a hoe] ❋ Sockcum (2020)

[That woman] is [married] but shes also a [chanti] a she'll suck anyone off. ❋ POTCS (2017)

While he slept she used the chanty and [slid] [it back] [under the bed] to be emptied in the morning. ❋ Gelsga Quine (2015)

"[no offense] man, but your [side chick] is a [total] chanti." ❋ JJ413 (2016)

[Don't talk] to that Chanty! ❋ Lala9183 (2016)