Bronson, Vol. IV, denies that Dibdin had anything to do with "High Barbaree."

The evidence shows he's right. There's no "High Barbaree" among Dibdin's works. The confusion seems to have arisen from the fact that Dibdin wrote a song called "Blow High, Blow Low" in the mid 18th century:


Blow high, blow low, let tempests tear
The main-mast by the board;
My heart with thoughts of thee, my dear,
And love well stored,
Shall brave all danger, scorn all fear,
The roaring winds the raging sea,
In hopes on shore
To be once more
Safe moor'd with thee.


Aloft while mountains high we go,
The whistling winds that scud along,
And surges roaring from below,
Shall my signal be
To think on thee,
And this shall be my song:
Blow high, blow low, &c.


And on that night, when all the crew
The mem'ry of their former lives
O'er flowing cans of flip renew,
And drink their sweethearts and their wives,
I'll heave a sigh, and think on thee;
And, as the ship rolls through the sea,
The burthen of my song shall be—
Blow high, blow low, &c.