Actually the excerpt you posted above labels it as a ‘Sea Ballad ‘ which is quite different to a ‘Sea Shanty’.
Just to reiterate , a Shanty is a work song utilising the call and response structure from West Africa.
Sorry to be pedantic 😁
Minor correction.
‘Johnny Todd ‘ isn’t a sea shanty , it’s a folk song that was peculiar to Liverpool .
Sea Shanties are work songs that evolved from the call and reply songs sung by African sailors and dock workers in the colonies .
Carry on !😁
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