Picture for a Song: The Mariner's Revenge Song by The Decemberists.

My favourite sea shanty. Sometimes, when i'm feeling rather optomisimic, I imagine a world in which all or at least most sea shanties are good to very good, and you could listen to them all night long while noisily clinking frothy glasses of overflowing and splashing beer with strangers gathered around a low ceilinged bar. Unfortunately this just isn't the case.