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Most of the famous chanteys were born in the packet service and shouted as working choruses by the tars of this Western Ocean before the chanteyman perched upon a capstan and led the refrain in the clipper trade.
"There's nothing finer with a rousing chanteyman leading it and the watch hauling on the braces. You'd never hear the like at any Ballad Soiree. And: "Sweet William, he married a wife, 'Gentle Jenny, cried Rose Marie, To be the sweet comfort of his life, As the dew flies over the mulberry tree." "There isn't much sense to it," she observed.
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