The song was indeed collected from tradition in Australia, and there is a field recording available here:
http://nla.gov.au/nla.oh-vn36318
Some of the Australian informants claimed the song was brought with Portuguese fishermen. Recently, I spoke with the Galician piper Carlos Nunez, and he firmly believes the melody to be Galician or Portuguese. He was astounded to hear the song was primarily known from Australia!
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