Here's a link to my personal website for a MP3 sample of how I sing "Port o' Dreams":Click here!

I did some more research on a few references in the song:

"Steveston" probably refers to an old lumber shipping port near Vancouver, BC, which is now a village in the Town of Richmond and the current site of tall ship festivals and the Britannia Heritage Shipyard where shanty swaps take place on a monthly basis coordinated by the Vancouver Folk Song Society.

The Maid of Athens may have been a brigantine that became shipwrecked on Statan Island, the one off Cape Horn, in 1870 after her cargo of coal began to burn. The captain's wife Emily Wooldridge kept a journal of their castaway experience which has been recently published. They were not loaded down with "deal," which is low-grade planks, but perhaps C. Fox Smith was expercising some poetic license. Emily and some of the crew refitted the ship's longboat and eventually made it to Port Stanley in the Falklands, whereupon a rescue steamer was sent back for the rest of the crew.

The Maid of Athens is also a reference to a Lord Byron poem and it's likely that the ships of that name were inspired by the poem. Of course Byron also composed poems to the Maid of Cadiz and poems to several other fair maids, and each appears unique. Cynics might have hoped for some overlap but there is none apparent.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble