Miners lived in tents, wood shanties, wagons, or deck cabins removed from abandoned ships. Miners lived in tents, wood shanties, or deck cabins removed from abandoned ships. He recorded a number of sea shanties and folk songs. Sea shanties and traditional songs were incorporated into the show. Classical composers have used shanties and sea songs (or their melodies) in their works. Professional sailors made similar use of a large body of sea shanties. This included an inn, blacksmith, a small store and some shanties and businesses nearby. Basra's sea shanties are well known throughout Iraq. Cruachan has also noted the influence of sea shanties on Viking metal, although disparagingly. However, lumber is cheap and shanties can be built. Some of these shanties have become middle class suburbs. The word is also encountered in sea shanties. For more about this see Work song and Sea shanties. Malcolm Arnold used its melody in his "Three Shanties for Woodwind Quintet", Op. Many other performers followed, creating influential versions and interpretations of shanties that persist today.