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We must explain that the working-songs of seamen or such as they sing when heaving at the pawl-windlass, catting the anchor, and other heavy pieces of work are of a different class altogether, and consist chiefly of a variety of appropriate choruses to lively and inspiriting tunes.
"Highland day and off she goes, Off she goes with a flying fore-topsail, Highland day and off she goes." It is one of the most spirited things imaginable, when well sung, and, when applied to the topsail-halyards, brings the yards up in grand style. These are some of the working-songs of the sea. They are not chosen for their sense, but for their sound.
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