Charles Nordhoff, in "Seeing the World, A Young Sailor's Own Story," tells of leaving Liverpool on a merchant ship which had unloaded cotton and was bound away with cargo and passengers. The windlass was manned by the passengers, who demanded sailor songs.

"The chaunty-man was called for.
Said he, 'Now, just wait; I'll set all the men and women crying before you know it.'
He struck up to a rather slow and plaintive tune an old capstan song, which begins as follows:

Chaunty-man: 'We're going away from friends and home,
Chorus: Oh, sailors, where are you bound to?
C-M: We're going away to hunt for gold.
Chorus: Across the briny ocean.
C-M: Father and mother say good-bye,
Chorus: Sailors, where are you bound to?
C-M: Oh, sisters, brothers, don't you cry,
Chorus: Across the briny ocean.

"They [passengers] had come up on deck laughing and talking; but the first two stanzas of this plaintive old song had not been sung, when all the women had their aprons to their eyes, and the men were not long in following suit- the fellows who had manned the windlass dropping the handspikes and sobbing like children. It was rather cruel sport, I thought, yet I would scarcely have believed that they would have been so easily affected.
"We had to pay for our fun by heaving the anchor up ourselves, and were glad to start up a more cheerful tune, to win Paddy back to his usual bright spirits."

Is this chantey known more fully?