Since the turn of the year, the hashtag #Shantytok has been hot after 26-year-old Nathan Evans, a postman from Glasgow, posted a video.
The rhythmic acapella song now inspires a new generation of land crabs to hook on.
The sea shanty, or the sea shanty, as it is called in English, was the seafarers' tool for both entertainment and cooperation, before the ships of the Industrial Revolution took over the world's oceans and the song fell silent.