Another version of the first verse:


MARY ANNE

(All day, all night, Miss Mary Anne
Down by the seaside shifting sand
Strings on her banjo can tie a goat
Water from the ocean can sail a boat.)

Original perhaps this:

All day, all night, Miss Mary Ann
Down by the seaside she taking man
Hair on she tun-tun could tie a goat
Water in she cunny-hole could sail a boat.

From V. S. Naipaul, 1959, Miguel Street