1908        Hubbard, W.L., ed. _History of American Music._ Toledo: Irving Squire.

One of the best of windlass songs, in which the melody rises and falls in a manner suggestive of the swell of the ocean, runs:

I'm bound away this very day,
    (Chorus) Oh, you Rio!

I'm bound away this very day,
    (Chorus) I'm bound for the Rio Grande! 
   
And away, you Rio, oh, you Rio!
I'm bound away this very day,
(Chorus) I'm bound for the Rio Grande!

This comes, without citation, from Adams (1879).

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1909        Williams, James H. "The Sailors' 'Chanties'." _The Independent_ (8 July 1909):76-83.

Williams was a sailor in the 1870s-1880s. His offerings are original.

Any man who had stood with me on the shores of a South American harbor in the early dawn and heard the strains of "Rio Grande" come rolling across the placid bay while a ship's crew were heaving their anchor would have to confess that it was about the most inspiring vocal music he had ever heard.

"In Rio Grande, I'll take my stand,
Heave away, to Rio,
Oh, Rio Grande, a happy fair land,
We're bound to Rio Grande.
Heave away, to Rio;
Heave away. oh, Rio;
So fare you well, my bonny brown maid,
We're bound to Rio Grande."