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Deep the water, shallow the shore : three essays on shantying in the West Indies /



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Abrahams, Roger D.

Deep the water, shallow the shore : three essays on shantying in the West Indies / Roger D. Abrahams ; music transcribed by Linda Sobin. - Austin : American Folklore Society, 1974. - 125 p. : music ; 22 cm. - Publications of the American Folklore Society. Memoir series ; 60 .

Bibliography: p. [123]-125.

Shantying in the West Indies -- "Row, bully, row boy" : singing the fishing on Nevis and Tobago -- "Solid fas'" our captain cry out: blackfishing at Barouallie

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