This was a tune we used to dance to when I was at junior school, in South Yorkshire, England about 55 years ago. Another one was Nellie the Elephant.

I seem to remember it as two line verses rather than four, though that could be to fit with the figures of the dance, which was a simple long morris.

The 'hey ho boatmen row sailing down the river on the Ohio' was sung twice, AFTER the 'chorus part two' and the figures were the simple cross over and back, cross corners, cross back, swing partners, and the chorus was to skip up the line, turn outwards, skip down to the bottom turn inwards and back up. It was processional so we danced around the playground or in the hall if wet.

I think at the bottom turning we went into one line ahead, then at the right place in the music turn outwards and move apart back into two lines, then turn around for the next figure.