I also learned the campers/counselors version posted by Mrrzy on 22 Dec 2010, although we sang “sassy” instead of silly. But I originally learned it from my father who was in the US Navy in 1944. He sang “happy is the day when the sailors get their pay” and the refrain “Rolling home (dead drunk!)”. Most importantly, the tune I learned both from my dad and repeated later at camp (in Michigan) was similar to, but noticeably different from the DT sheet music posted early in this thread. Everyone I know learned it the way I learned it but I have no way to post it. I haven’t seen that in print.
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