Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas by Gerry Smyth

Sailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas

Gerry Smyth with Jonny Hannah (Illustrator)

nonfiction music informative lighthearted medium-paced

160 pages | first published 2020

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Passed down in the oral tradition and sung as working songs, sea shanties tell the compelling human stories of life on the water: hard labor, battling the elements, pining for distant loves and far-away homes. The music's rhythms are designed to g...
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