Possible Clues:

• Sailors' chant
• An uplifting sailors' cry
• Sailors' chant while hauling on ropes
• Refrain in chants traditionally uttered by sailors
• "Song of the Volga Boatmen" refrain
• Cry that helps people pull together
• What's heard from men on the pull is hooey — have got upset
• "Hooey!" — have toiling sailors voiced this?
• You started hoo-ha with Eve rewriting chant
• It's called weightlifting, in the main