sea-song

“Come in here, and lull me to sleep with a sea-song.”

Westward Ho! 2007

He arrived from England after a thirteen-hours 'passage in a gale of wind, in which he composed his most famous sea-song, "Blow High, Blow Low."

The Automobilist Abroad

Before it touched, a song sprang to her lips, a wild sea-song, such as some sailor might be singing far out on trackless blue water that night, the shrouds whistling with frost and the sheets glued in ice, -- a song with the wind in its burden and the spray in its chorus.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 Various

There was a blaze of light from the Miners 'Arms -- the tumbledown shanty, half of bark and half of canvas, where the diggers assembled every night -- and a crowd of men were at the door lustily shouting the chorus of a sea-song.

The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas Mary Gaunt

The captain was all at sea about it, and none of the men would say anything, for by all accounts 'twas the best pipe at a sea-song as was to be heard.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various

Never was a gallant and devil-may-care sea-song sung so hopelessly without spirit.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Various

Bill Blunt entered into the company of the _Barang_ and took up his post at the gangway with a roaring sea-song rumbling in his mossy throat.

Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

And bursting into a rollicking Norwegian sea-song, she climbed up to my shoulder and we went on deck.

The Voyages of Dr. Dolittle Hugh Lofting 1916

Then came the pirate locusts, with a sea-song free and bold; –

The Miracle, and Other Poems 1913

The passage out of the sea-song, which is heard constantly through the first act, is not a leit-motif, nor are many of the other subjects.

Wagner Runciman, John F 1913