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Everybody’s obsessed with sea shanties right now, with the song The Wellerman blowing up on TikTok (you’ve probably had it playing in your head for a few days). In this particular shanty, the seamen ...

Amid the global media coverage of the pandemic and Donald Trump’s final days as US president, an unexpected music genre went viral on TikTok: traditional sea shanties, spurring what has become known ...