chantey
- n a rhythmical work song originally sung by sailors
- Pilot Haddock recalled a chantey by which student aviators in the Navy were taught the rudiments of safe flying, each verse pointing a moral.
- Two good poems appearone an old-style Lindsay chantey, "The Virginians Are Coming Again," and "Twenty Years Ago," a rambling epistle to some anonymous and scornfully rejected .
- The sound track blares the black, lurching music of the chantey, Shenandoah.