Blow—Blow—Blow—a man Down.
Blow a man down to the home of old Nick.
Give me some time to blow a man down.’
“The pull being at every other line, there are eight pulls in the above.
“For a quick pulling chanty we often use this one:
“‘Rendso was no sailor—
Rendso, boys, Rendso,
He shipped on board a whaler—
Rendso, boys, Rendso.’
“What happened to Rendso depended on the imagination of the one who sang the ‘coal box’—the line. Here is a heaving chanty, or slow pull: