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Hello, did you spend your weekend watching and listening to people doing sea shanties online?

It certainly feels that's what the world was doing this weekend and it all started with this Scottish postman called Nathan who lives in Airdre who went viral on Tik-Tock after uploading his version of the 19th century New Zealand classic sea shanty, weller man.

She had not been two weeks from shore and down on her, a right well bore.

And then it felt as if basically everyone on Tik-talk used the duet function to sing along with their own version.

Soon may the well a man come to bring a sugar and tea and rum. One day when the tongue is done we'll take our leave

and go. And now we're shamelessly going to jump on the bandwagon with a newscast version and we're going to do it with the help of Emily Barnes who is one-sixth of the silver

darlings. Hello Adam, how are you? Good thanks. Who are the silver darlings by the way?

Because I'm new to the sea shanty world.

Ah, okay.

So we are an all-female sea shanty crew

hailing from Westcliff on sea in Essex

or within the South End. What would you that is the magic of a sea shanty?

Why is it just such a kind of cool thing?

I think what's great about sea shanties is that everyone can sing them and everyone can join in and particularly at the moment where we're all

feeling kind of very isolated and disconnected from each other. Singing is such a great way of bringing people back together and I think

particularly with shanties you don't need to be a great

singer it's sort of vocal harmony skill you know everyone can join in and they're

all rousing and they're kind of they're designed to get everyone's morale up and

their design sort of boost mood and sort of keep people motivated so I think that's

probably part of the magic and the one one that was made famous by Nathan on the Tik-talk was Wellerman.

Yeah.

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