Our third verse is:

Out of my window, looking in the night
I can see those barges' flickering light.
Now is the time when I will soon be gone
and I'll sail with barges on and on.

Barges, I am going now with you
I am going to sail the ocean blue.
Barges, we have treasure in our hold
and we fight with pirates brave and bold.

I learned it in the mid-70s..NW Missouri. Judging by the apparent age of the handwritten songbook we used in the early 80s, the song was in use here for a long time before I learned it.
My guess is that it might have been introduced at one of those Conference gathering things to have been able to get nearly everywhere with very few differences in wording.

I chanced upon mudcat a few years ago by running across a thread about Barges. I was absolutely enchanted to find that there are still Old School scouts on the loose talking about songs I know.
Neat find.

Has anybody heard of a field collection of the songs we think of as Traditional GS?

Melissa