Gibb, the '"Mister Stormalong", aka just "Stormalong" (this is the one with 'aye aye aye' in the chorus)"'. That's the version Bob Roberts has on the CD mentioned above. All he says in the notes concerning where he has it from " Previously noted from old shanteymen in both England & Wales". Common enough source for Lloyd/MacColl??? (so common it's found in the collections of plenty)If you'd like further info on Bob's origins of the songyou might ask Danny Spooner when he comes to Mystic. He was a young deckhand to BoB. The only dating of this CD & it's field recording by Peter Kennedy was between 1950-1950.

Beck's version (Yankee John, Stormalong) though West Indian is very different from Hugil's & Abrahams' versions which are very similar.

Barry