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“Blackbird Get Up” is a rowing chantey from St. Vincent, and has one of the most fascinating (to me) stories of all these songs. Yankee whalers would sometimes set sail with a skeleton crew and pick up additional hands in the Caribbean, including French-creole speakers from St. Vincent. The Vincentians learned how to hunt whales from longboats, and they learned some of the English-language chanteys. They didn’t really have the infrastructure to build whaling ships on St. Vincent, but they could and did build whaleboats; they would put to sea in the boats and hunt whales near the shore. In addition to the English chanteys they’d learned, they developed some songs of their own; this is one of them.
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