| A sea shanty, chantey, or chanty is a type of work song that was once commonly sung to accompany labor on board large merchant sailing vessels. |
| He was piecing out the chantey and fitting words to it, and succeeding rather well. |
| They spoke in a ribald and rhythmic way, singing out the odds like a sea chantey. |
| In Helen Mirra's video The Ballad of Myra Furrow, the artist, dressed in a peacoat and cap, sings a sea chantey as she stands before Lake Michigan in the drizzling rain. |
| The song or chantey was familiar to deep-sea sailors many years ago. |
| That wan't no rum and woman song, that was the old 'Whisky, Johnny' chantey. |
