When the "Shanty-Tok" trend came along a few months ago, we looked for something in our repertoire that could be danced to the New Zealand sea song Wellerman (technically not a shanty, since it lacks the call and response structure of a true shanty, as has been pointed out by sticklers, but never mind), and came up with Šetnja, because "Šetnja" and "Shanty" have a similar set of consonant sounds, so we could be clever and call it "Sea Šetnja". Meanwhile, apparently lots of people have noticed that Wellerman and Ievan Polka (to which we dance Richard Powers' Tokyo Polka) blend quite nicely, and there are many youtube videos that combine them one way or another:
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