Sea shanty until that decade. A well-known early example, though not strictly speaking a reference to a shanty, is the song "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest", which was invented by Robert Louis Stevenson for his novel "Treasure Island" (1883). Quotes of "Blow the Man Down" were particularly plentiful. Rudyard Kipling romanticized the idea of the sailor's sea song within the poetic genre with his works "The First Chantey" and "The Last Chantey" (1893). While shanties were historically understood as work songs, the word "shanty" has often been used in popular culture since the mid-20th century as a catch-all term that
Robert A. Cook Robert A. Cook Robert Andrew Cook (June 7, 1912 – March 11, 1991) was the president of The King's College (New York) in Briarcliff Manor, a Christian author, radio broadcaster, and pastor. He went to Moody Bible Institute when he was 16 years old. After graduating, he went to Wheaton College (Illinois) and earned a B.A. He then went to Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and was ordained a Baptist minister in 1931, serving 18 years as a full-time pastor. Cook's most famous book, "Now That I Believe", was originally published in 1949. It went on to become translated in 27