Yeah, Steve, it's pretty overwhelming. The "language" of minstrel songs is so often the same as the language in chanties. Hard, for me, to know where to start because there is just so much.

That's why when I say that when I squint my eyes (squint my ears?) and listen to "South Australia," I hear a down-home Southern US-style minstrel song that might as well be about being bound for "Alabama" or "South Virginia."

For example, "RING DE HOOP AN BLOW DE HORN":
In Carolina whar I was born
I husk de wood an chop de corn
A roastin ear to de house I bring
But de drivers kotch me an dey sing