The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #21413   Message #3722999
Posted By: Lighter
12-Jul-15 - 07:15 AM
Thread Name: Origins: John Kanaka
Subject: RE: Origins: John Kanaka
Eckstorm & Smyth, Minstrelsy of Maine (1927), a short version titled "Jan Kanaganaga," coll. from Capt. James A Creighton, at sea in the 1850s and later. No tune is given.

James Revell Carr discusses some aspects of the chantey (inconclusively, IMO) in Hawaiian Music in Motion (2014), pp. 73-74.