I Love Sea Shanties

There is a whaling exhibit in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

They have a board with a bunch of buttons. Each one plays a different sea song.

See this link:

https://americanhistory.si.edu/on-the-water/fishing-living/commercial-fishers/whaling/sea-songs

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pride49 · 31-35, M

Here's a roman sea shanty
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Grateful4you · M

I hate the idea of whaling, but love songs of "Sea Shanties" sometime, listen to Burl Ive's, "Jack was every inch a sailor" a favorite of mine since I was a youngster.

JoyfulSilence · 46-50, M

@Grateful4you

Yeah, seeing that exhibit made me a bit sad for the whales.

But I eat lots of meat, and seldom feel bad about it.

I suppose at first, it should be sustainable. If people need it to live, like the Inuit, or the world at that time needed it to light their homes, then I suppose it is tolerable. But the latter people overfished.

Who knows? Maybe in a hundred years when meat is outlawed due to acceptable plant-based substitutes and changing attitudes, we will look on it all with horror, like we do now with whaling. But at least cows have no risk of becoming extinct.

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