No one seems to have posted Stan Hugill's version of "The Hog-Eye Man."

Lyr. Add: THE HOG-EYE MAN (Hugill)

He came to a shack where his Sally (Jinny) she did dwell,
And he knocked on the door and he rang her bell,
Oh, An' a hog-eye (Oh, hog-eye, O)!
Railroad nigger wid his Hogeye
(Row the boat ashore for her hogeye)!
Row the boat ashore wid her hog-eye O!
She wants the hog-eye man!

Oh, Jinny's (Sally's) in the garden, pickin' peas,
An' the hair of her head hangin' down to her knees.

Oh, who's bin here since I've bin gone?
Some big buck nigger wid his sea-boots on.

If I cotch him here wid me Jinny (Sally) any more,
I'll sling my hook an' I'll go to sea some more.

Oh, Jinny (Sally) in the parlour a-sittin' on his knee,
A-kissin' the sailor who'd come o'er the seas.

Sally (Jinny) in the garden siftin' sand,
An' the hog-eye man sittin' hand-in-hand.

Oh, Sally (Jinny) in the garden shellin' peas,
With her yound hog-eye all a-sittin' on her knee.

Oh, I won't wed a nigger, no, I'm dammed if I do,
He's got jiggers in his feet an' he can't wear a shoe.

Oh, the hog-eye man is the man for me,
He wuz raised way down in Tennessee
(For he is blind aan' he cannot see).

Oh, go fetch me down my ridin'-cane,
For I'm off to see me darlin' Jane.

Oh, a hog-eye ship an' a hog-eye crew,
A hog-eye mate an' a skipper too,

With music, pp. 198-200, Stan Hugill, "Shanties from the Seven Seas, (1961), 1994 new U. S. edition, Mystic Seaport. Whall said a hog-eye was a barge used on the canals and rivers of the U. S. at the time of the Gold Rush in California (1850), and Hugill seems to accept this as its origin (hog-eye man being one of the crew of a hog-eye). See meaning 2 in a previous post).
There are several variant choruses; Hugill gives five.

I have a suspicion that this chantey originated with the slave oarsmen and crews on the southeast coast and on the Gulf rivers.