Wild Goose shanty is in Hugill first published 1961 a different song to Reuben Ranzo ~ with negroe connections ~ and huckleberry hunting
Wm Main Doerflinger book Shanty men and Shanty boys ~ Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman 1951 copyright has original version of Reuben Ranzo as he collected it I suspect ~ also in Hugill with umpteen collected verses noted
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