"The Winding Sheet" is also the title of a traditional sea chanty that was the basis of the well known "Streets of Larado".

Mort and I wrenched them back together, shouting out a rousing chorus from an old sea chanty frequently sung by sailors as they were being keel-hauled.

I'll teach you a sea chanty.

Historically, it was often sung as a sea chanty.

Uhura tuned the guitar then treated them in succession to an east African lullaby, a Scottish air, a Welsh ballad and an Irish sea chanty.

Skullick, Skor's sub-lieutenant, struck up a berserk battle chant and Fafhrd found himself singing an Ilthmar sea chanty to it.

She was dressing now, humming fragments of an unfamiliar tune that sounded like a Corsican sea chanty.

The third is a sea chanty told by a girl who poses as a boy, Jim, in order to be able to go to sea.

I sat in bemused and angry silence for a while, watching him make his way leisurely back to the house, whistling an old sea chanty as loudly as he could.

The song had become popular as a sea chanty with sailors by the 1880s.