What are Pirates without a good song to sing? So what if they are in space instead of the seas, there's always room for a good ol' Pirate sea shanty!
Traditional sea shanties were crude, rhythmic, call-and-response songs invented to help sailors complete tasks that required precise teamwork - like hoisting a sail or raising anchor by pulling a line at the same time. The leader, or shantyman, would call out new verses and the crew would respond with a simple, repetitive chorus, pulling in time with the task, e.g:
Traditional sea shanties were crude, rhythmic, call-and-response songs invented to help sailors complete tasks that required precise teamwork - like hoisting a sail or raising anchor by pulling a line at the same time. The leader, or shantyman, would call out new verses and the crew would respond with a simple, repetitive chorus, pulling in time with the task, e.g:
I thought I heard the Old Man say,
Leave her, Johnny, leave her!
Tomorrow, you will get your pay
And it’s time for us to leave her!
(Totally didn't rip that from the last RoS :P)
You are tasked with creating a Sea Shanty for the Saijo Pirate Faction. The kind of song YOU could imagine them singing aboard the Red Sun, Fennyl's flagship.
Your sea shanty must use a call-and-response format as described above.
It must be a minimum of four paragraphs.
The winning entry's Sea Shanty may be used in the Fiction Update for Phase 2!
Placements will be determined by adherence to the formatting. (The call-response.)
How well the shanty fits within the context of the Saijo Pirates.
Mechanics of spelling and grammar.
Good luck, everyone!
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1st place
Aylin Sajark
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2nd place
Aticus Jade
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3rd place
Jorm (The Jester) Na'trej
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