I've dug out the recording. I first typed out what was in my head, then corrected it from the recording. Not many changes, apart from one verse that I had entirely forgotten. Anyway, here it is.

Stewie please do check against the 'Sailor's Delight' recording as there may well be some differences.

There are considerable differences from the version I've mostly heard in the Revival (presumably Bert's?), including the absence of the "Eskimo" verse.

Cyril introduced it as "Franklin's Crew".


FRANKLIN'S CREW
(as recorded by Cyril Tawney)

While cruisin' home across the deep,
Snug in my hammock, I fell asleep.
I dreamed these lines, which I think are true,
Concerning Franklin and his brave crew.

And as we neared old England's shore
I saw a lady in deep deplore.
She wept aloud and she seemed to say
"Alas my Franklin is long away.

"It's a long time now since those ships of fame
Bore my long-lost husband across the main,
With a hundred men, with courage stout,
To find the north-western passage out.

"To find a passage by the North Pole
Where the storms do rage and wild waters roll.
'Twas more than mortal man can do
With heart undaunted and courage true.

"They sailéd east and they sailéd west
Along Greenland's coast, which they knew the best.
'Gainst hardships and dangers they vainly strove.
'Gainst mountains of ice their ships were drove.

"Oh Captain Osborne of Scarborough Town,
Granville and Fairey of great renown,
And Captain Ross and many more
Have since been cruising by that arctic shore.

"In Baffin's Bay where the right whale blows,
The fate of Franklin no-one knows.
Which causes many to weep and mourn
While praying for their safe return."