Jeff: There are a couple of posts to that effect in the chanty threads. The problem comes with quotes like Hugill's:

"...but there was a theme of sorts which some shantymen adopted, that of running the 'bulgine' to and from all sorts of places:

Oh, we'll run from Callyo to Dover.

Oh, we'll run down south to old Cape horn.
&c."

And from there the author mingles in the later minstrel fireman's chaunt genre in:

"Oh, New York [London] town is a-burnin,..." &c.

Obviously we need more than one definition for the century or so of usage.


Lastly...

It's not a legal play in Scrabble.