Remember how you learned this song, Kendall - I'll bet you didn't see this song in print until 20 years after you learned it. Oral tradition allows for a wider variation in interpretations of words in a song. You Mainers do have a bit of an unusual way with your words, so certainly you'd have an interesting variation on this.
How was it you pronounce the names of those towns up north, like Lubec and Calais, eh? Even Bangor is a bit different than the way the rest of us would pronounce it.
Ayup. There's a difference. A very nice difference, but a difference nonetheless.
-Joe Offer-