timelessly chic fisherman sweaters.The trend apparently began with Scottish musician and mail carrier Nathan Evans, 26, who shares solo performances of today’s hits and folk music on TikTok.
A recent clip of Evans’ rendition of “Soon May the Wellerman Come,” originally shared in December, has since been scooped by a number of other songmen of social media, each of whom added their own harmonies to the buoyant ditty.
Harmonious arrangements once sung by shipmates to pass the time, shanties are part of folk music tradition hailing from the Scottish isles, some of which have echoed for hundreds of years.
One of the most well known among them, “Drunken Sailor” (You know it: “What will we do with a drunken sailor? Early in the morning!”), has.
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