Heise, All1549, "The Complaynt of Scotland", is the earliest the Boarding Party has come up with - older by a whisker than others. Its on our second album, Fair Winds and a Following Sea, Folk Legacy FSI109. The two pages of liner notes relate all the gory details.
Its in period lowland Scots but is definitly a shanty.
Being a call and response piece, its even singable.
KC