Several of us nautical singers have been adapting the poems of C. Fox Smith, John Masefield, Burt Franklin Jenness, and others for singing. My own contributions to this process may be viewed or listened to on my website:
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There's always the question of whether one uses exactly what the poet composed or whether the poem is altered for singing, sometimes by adapting a verse for a chorus or sometimes by deleting entire verses.

Charley Noble