Delighted to notice a batch of songs collected by Cecil Sharp in New York from a Robert Wheelwright in 1916. They are manuscript notations archived at the VWML. As far as I've seen, Sharp never prepared them for publication (one supposes that Sharp had more or less "finished" what he wanted to say about chanties by this time?).

In a page from Sharp's diary (also archived in VWML), Sharp says briefly of his encounter with Wheelwright that the latter was "a youngish fellow" and that he noted "5 chanteys" from him. Sharp may have been using the term "chantey" loosely in the diary. In the manuscripts, Sharp labels only 3 of the 5 as chanties. The other two are variations of "Van Dieman's Land" and "High Barbaree" which, by current custom, tend to be classified as "sea songs", "ballads" etc. notwithstanding Hugill's generous inclusion of these items in his anthology on the rationale that he found some or other instance of these songs "used as work-songs."

Of the three items labeled as chanties, I posted texts of two in the Mudcat thread about "Caribbean Chanties": "Bulldog Don't Bite Me" and "St. John Seegar."

The third could be considered a variation of "Blow Boys Blow," with the title "Pull my bully boys Pull".

Despite the obvious relationship to "Blow Boys Blow," this variation is set in a minor key and has a different melodic shape. It also has an additional partial line/chorus tacked on the end of the stanza.

TEXT:
A Yankee ship dropped down the river
Pull my bully boys pull
A Yankee ship dropped down the river
Pull my bully boys pull
Yeo ho, heave ho, [one measure only]
O pull my bully boys pull