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Quotes About Shanty

Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wailA Shanty TownDem rude boys out on probationA Shanty TownDem a rude when dem come up to townA Shanty Town
~ Desmond Dekker
tumbledown shack
~ Lee Child
I'm making a list of when it's acceptable for a pirate to cry. […] So far I've got: one - when holding a seagull covered in oil. Two - when singing a shanty that reminds him of orphans. Three - when confronted with the unremitting loneliness of the human condition. Four - chops. I've just written the word 'chops'. Not really sure where I was going with that one. Any ideas?
~ Gideon Defoe
A spy in what her mother called the land of Mackerel Snappers and Shanty Irish.
~ Jeffery Deaver