Not totally sure whether to head here or /mu/, but it seems a little more your speed.
Over the last few years, and particularly the last few months, I have been nursing a growing addiction to sea shanties. The supply isn't bad, traditionally styled and otherwise, but they're also almost exclusively English. Shanties aside, I'm a world music fag. I'd like to Branch out, but with the exception of Soran Bushi I haven't found jack shit. Can anyone refer me to (preferably non English) examples, or explain why they're so hard to come by? I would have expected at least as many in Spanish, French, and Portuguese as in English, and a number from the East as well.
I know its too close to england to fit the thread but I had some pretty irish family in yonkers growing up and they'd sing "my son john" all the time and that shit's got me nostalgic now
A bit hard to classify these as shanties but I think it's as close as it gets, to the pieces defense I'll say yes, they were sorta sang as work songs, furthermore all of these are by the israeli navy band
