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“Boney” is a single-pull or short-drag chantey; Hugill also gives it as a halyard chantey, and Colcord also gives it as a sweating-up chantey. I’m a little skeptical of that last, as sweating up—taking the slack out of lines—rarely takes more than a few pulls, and a chantey that tells a story is never going to get anywhere.

I first heard it at the San Francisco chantey sing, though there have been lots of other influences. Often at chantey sings, you’ll hear the lead wait for the response to finish; I like this overlapping version better. I really like to use it at Mystic Seaport for hauling a whaleboat up the side of the Charles W. Morgan; one of the first things I learned at Mystic is that a chanteyman generally doesn’t sing the responses, because there’s just not enough air!

… for more notes, see music.maden.org/index.php?title=Boney

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from Shower Chanteys, released October 1, 2018

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Chris Maden Raymond, New Hampshire

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