Won't You Help Me to Raise 'Em


Won’t You Help Me to Raise ‘Em  (Alison)

Unlike chanteys where the work was done in rhythm with the singing, in net hauling songs the work was done during the pauses between verses punctuated by shouted phrases to encourage or taunt the fisherman. Along the southeast coast of the United States, African-American fishermen used self-closing purse-seine nets to gather menhaden (a type of fish used in industrial, not comestible applications). Cameo appearance by Ken Schatz of The NexTradition.