From Mrs. Wales of Burlington, Vermont, in early 1932, learned from her grandmother, Mrs. Bissell, and also her sisters. Mrs. Bissell and her sisters "sang a great deal while living on the farm of their father, Phineas Moulton, at Randolph, Vermont, before 1860."

They had not sailed a month or more,
A month or scarcely three,
When she began to weep and lament
And to mourn most bitterlie.

"O do you weep for gold, " he said,
"Or do you weep for me,
Or do you weep for your house carpenter
That you left to come with me?"

"I do not weep for gold," she said,
"I do not weep for thee;
But I do weep for my house carpenter
Whom I left to come with thee."

They had not sailed a month or more,
A month or scarcely four,
When a hole in the ship, and the ship sprang a leak
And her weeping was heard no more.