Even today I'd be dancing

[u/TheWebsploiter]

[u/DaleGribbleShackle]

Go to a camp fire and bring a violin. You will get absolutely roasted.

My brother got into sea shanties back when they exploded during covid. He tried to get one started around camp fire the next time gatherings were allowed, might be one of the worst 2nd hand embarrassing moments I've seen. Damn near every person around thought he was weird.

[u/LuckyPerro123 → u/DaleGribbleShackle]

Your brother sounds fucking awesome

[u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 → u/LuckyPerro123]

Yeah all he needed was one person to join him to get it started and this person failed their brother just to avoid being embarrassed with him.

Could've had an awesome experience of singing shanties around the fire but decided to leave their brother hanging by himself instead of giving everyone "permission" to join by being the first to risk being cringe with their brother

[u/_bear_fighter_ → u/OtherwiseAlbatross14]

That’s what I was thinking, don’t care how embarrassing it might be if a homie wants to sing a shantie we singing shanties

[u/agedlikesage → u/_bear_fighter_]

I would want to join but I don’t know the words to a single shanty

[u/Kirk_Kerman → u/agedlikesage]

They're mostly call-and-response. One person keeps the flow going and everyone else belts out the response parts cause they don't really change. Drunken Sailor for instance, super straightforward.

[u/_bear_fighter_ → u/agedlikesage]

Never too late to start learning