Here’s an old nautical song that was evidently popular at one time, judging from how often it was reprinted. Variants started appearing as far away as the West coast of the United States.

The Friscopool Prize; a Farce in Two Acts by Frederick le Pouf, pp 666 -668. (Folklore Archives, U.C. Berkeley, 1989.)
“As it is performed at the Castro Royale, on Castro Street, to Universal Applause”
Tune, The dusky night, &c.[*]


Come all ye San Francisco girls
And drown in booze your sorrow
Your beaux will not come home tonight
Nor will they come tomorrow

CHORUS.
And a cruizing we will go,
And a cruizing we will go,
A cruizing we will go,
And a cruizing we will go.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy twinks
Did gyre and gimble in the pub,
All mimsy were the boys, methinks,
And scarfed up the grub.
        So a cruizing, &c.

See Harvey Milk once more display'd,
Upon the billboards - wheee!
LGBTQWE
RTYUIOP!
    So a cruizing, &c.

So beauteous maids your smiles bestow,
Yet we may prove unkind,
We shall not kiss your fulsome lips
And leave the boys behind.
            So a cruizing, &c.