Here's is a sparse, primitive-sounding arrangement of a traditional American sea shanty. It might have sounded something like this on shipboard back in the days of sail. There's only a banjo, voice, and a set of 6 antique brass door keys. The drum-like sound is actually just tapping on the banjo head.

This was recorded in my home studio near Saint Petersburg, Russia late one night when I couldn't sleep and was just fooling around. Years later I discovered it lurking on an external drive. I remember I had been reading about the U.S. opoid drug crisis and the role of big pharmaceutical companies in creating it. Evidently some disgust lingered in my consciousness, because a snide reference found it's way into one verse. I've decided to leave it.

NOTE: I have another recording of this song with a full shanty group arrangement. To avoid confusion here, I've only put it on Bandcamp.com - HERE.

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