1906[Jan.] Masefield, John. "Sea-Songs." _Temple Bar_ (Jan. 1906): 56-80.

...I remember a barque sailing for home from one of the Western ports. I was aboard her, doing some work, I forget exactly what, just below the fore-rigging, and the effect of these differing voices, now drawing near and ringing out, then passing by, and changing, and fading, was one of strange beauty. It was beautiful as much for its stately rhythm as for its music. It was like watching some beautiful dance in which the dancers sang as they moved slowly. The song they were singing was the old, haunting pathetic chanty of the Rio Grande. As it was sung that sunny morning, under the hills, to the sound of the surf and the cheering sailors, its poor ballad took to itself the nobility of great poetry. One remembered it, as a supremely lovely thing, in which one was fortunate to have taken a part.

[w/ piano score]

Where are you going, my pretty maid ?
O, away to Rio. 

Where are you going, my pretty maid ? 

O, we're bound to the Rio Grande. 
   
O, away to Rio, 
   
O, away to Rio;
O, fare you well, my bonny young girl, 
   
For we're bound to the Rio Grande. 


Have you a sweetheart, my pretty maid ?
O, away to Rio.

The piano score here is right out of Davis/Tozer.

Masefield mentions that he had read Davis/Tozer, Smith, and others' books. In his other book from the same year...

1906[Oct.]        Masefield, John, ed. _A Sailor's Garland_. London: Macmillan.

...he gives "Rio Grande" again with a couple more verses. Note that this volume contains many verses of songs that Masefield composed. Therefore, while the following seem plausible enough as traditional verses, one must remain skeptical.

THE RIO GRANDE 
      
(capstan)

Where are you going to, my pretty maid?
       O away Rio; 

Where are you going to, my pretty maid? 
   
We are bound to the Rio Grande. 
      
O away Rio, 
      
O away Rio, 

O fare you well, my bonny young girl, 
   
We are bound to the Rio Grande.

Have you a sweetheart, my pretty maid?

May I go with you, my pretty maid?

I'm afraid you're a bad one, kind sir, she replied,