My version comes from my grandfather :

How well I do remember the fifteenth of Octember
When I nearly went and broke me mother's heart
For I signed on with the skipper of a fine four-masted clipper
Bound around the world to see some foreign parts

And the wind began to blow, and the ship began to roll
And the divil of a hurricane did blow ho ho
It nearly knocked the stuffin' from the good ship Ragamuffin
And we thought to the bottom she would go with an awful rush.