Here's an interesting angle from the notes of a CD called "Blow the Man Down".
"Sometimes it starts: 'I'm the shantyman of the Wild Goose Nation', perhaps a reference to Ireland (wild geese is a name for 17th century Irish patriots who fled their country to take service with foreign kings)."
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