“Wellerman” (Sea Shanty) is a folk song about a whaling ship named the Billy o’ Tea. It talks about the crew waiting for a “Wellerman” to bring them supplies, showing their struggles and ...

They’d supply whaling stations around New Zealand with the goods they needed, like tea and rum, as the lyrics ... but The Wellerman is not strictly a shanty, just a song sung at sea.

By Isabella Kwai Nathan Evans had no idea when he uploaded a cover of “The Wellerman,” a whaling song with a shanty beat, that it would help touch off, well, a sea shanty tidal wave.

It's easy to see why "Soon May the Wellerman ... sing a sea shanty together, virtually What was left of their greedy, invasive, abusive, whale-slaughtering enterprise? Merely a song, invented ...

On Thursday night, the team was featured on "The Tonight Show" with host Jimmy Fallon singing a parody of the sea shanty "Soon May the Wellerman ... when a cover of the song by British musician ...