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English
Noun
chantey (plural chanteys)
- 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.