I had a thread once about how if you listen to the lyrics of the song "Day-O" they're a horribly depressing description of a truly horrible job Which means that associating it with tourists on vacation at a resort is kind of wildly perversehttps://twitter.com/Travon/status/1349603279005573120 …
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(The song is from the POV of dock workers loading the bananas for shipping, hence the subtitle "The Banana Boat Song" So it's not technically a "sea shanty" but it's shanty-adjacent)
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Seriously, one of the verses of the song is about how when you're exhausted at the end of your shift and tipsy because you've had a little nip to take the edge off is the perfect time for a tarantula to ambush youpic.twitter.com/bpdirfrR8q
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Replying to @cmon_what
I'm pretty sure someone must've done a parody of "Day-O" as "Day-0" but I don't think I've ever heard it
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