chantey

English

Noun

chantey (plural chanteys)

1. Alternative form of shanty (sailor's song).
   • 1906, Stewart Edward White, Buried Treasure:

     Then we had a mouth-organ solo or two, which naturally led on to songs. My turn came. I struck up the first verse of a sailor chantey as possessing at least the interest of novelty.
     
     Oh once we were a-sailing, a-sailing were we;
     Blow high, blow low, what care we;
     And we were a-sailing to see what we could see,
     Down on the coast of the High Barbaree.