Here's an interesting fragment. It's from Franz Lee Rickaby's Ballads and Songs of the Shanty-Boy (1926), sung by Mr. A.C. Hannah of Bemidji, Minnesota.

On the Lac San Pierre

Von night on the Lac San Pierre
The vind she blow, blow, blow;
The vind she blow from the nor', sout', eas',
She blow our crib from the shore....
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Our raf' she struck on a great beeg rock
In the beeg Lachine canawl.

Come all ye jolly raf'smen,
I tell you von good plan.
You marry von good French voman
An' leev on von good farm.
For the vind she may blow from the nor', sout', eas',
Bime by she be blow some more;
But you never git drown' in the Lac San Pierre
So long 's you stay on the shore.

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The tune is very similar to the Lomax tune in the first message, but I think I like this one better.

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