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boat song
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a chanson sung by the voyageurs, in rhythm with their paddling or rowing.
Quotations
1820
He could occasionally join his men in the chorus of some of the voyageurs boat songs, with which they beguiled [sic] the tediousness of the voyage and the labours of the paddle.
1956
The HB men could only listen, for they had no boat song of their own.