A sea shanty work song in the voice of Elias the shantyman — the SEASONED TAKE, the definitive version. The band has played this song every night for a month; the call-and-response is tighter, the crew knows the rope. Warm tavern acoustics, accordion, fiddle, handclaps, stomping. The story: a patient fisherman works the deck, a slow landing, a small pink fish, the fish gets away, and there is no hurry — other fish in the sea, and for him he is free. Joyful, anthemic, lived-in work-song energy. The slow lander is not the joke — he is the reason the work has a rhythm.