Word: chanteys
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...couple of chords and finding the loopiest way possible to descend into chaos, Stephen Malkmus is instantly catchy, though still weird enough to satisfy the cult. The song Jo Jo's Jacket is a vague tribute to Yul Brynner, and The Hook may be the first indie-rock pirate chantey. That aside, Malkmus has grown as a songwriter. Jenny and the Ess-Dog is a churning rocker that chronicles a doomed hippie romance, while Church on White, written for his late friend, the novelist Robert Bingham, has Malkmus genuinely emoting: "All you ever wanted/ was everything/ and everything/ plus...
...urges the old sea chantey. Last week Commonwealth Statistician S. R. Carver revealed another interesting fact about Australian girls: seven out of every ten of Australia's teen-age mothers in 1951 conceived their first babies without benefit of marriage; 28% of all the year's firstborn children were conceived out of wedlock...
...Chantey After a steady diet of three months of tennis in Australia, Tony Trabert and Vic Seixas, top U.S. amateurs, were obviously fed up. Being fed up, they blew up-and with a resounding bang. The Americans' trouble was twofold:1) they were losing instead of winning, and 2) they were losing in Australia...
...nickel in the piccolo!" cried one of the fishermen. Thereupon, following their song leader, they broke into a high, happy chantey. The Bendix men had never heard anything quite like it before...
...Deacon" Anderson, 26, had worked out a kind of K.P. chantey as he swung his mop. As he explains now: "It's hard to think up words with any sense when you're tired, and I got to spelling...