Richard Runciman Terry
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“Before the days of factories and machinery, all forms of work were literally manual labour, and all the world over the labourer, obeying a primitive instinct, sang at his toil: the harvester with his sickle, the weaver at the loom, the spinner at the wheel. Long after machinery had driven the labour-song from the land it survived at sea in the form of shanties, since all work aboard a sailing vessel was performed by hand.”
― The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
― The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
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