And, from Sam Pacetti, the following version:

The verse you want is, I believe:

Now whoop pole, boys,
You work loud and long,
Wide as a barrel and then twice as strong.

(Whoop pole being the cadence call as they would paddle, I assume.)

Now some rode up
But we float down,
Way down the Ohio
To Shawneetown.

CHORUS: And it's hard on the beach oar
She moves too slow
Way down to Shawneetown on the Ohio.

The whiskey's in the jug, boys.
The wheat is in the sack.
We'll float her down to Shawneetown
And then bring the rock salt back. CHORUS

I got a wife in Louisville,
One in New Orleans.
When I get down to Shawneetown
I'm gonna see my Indian queen. CHORUS

The water's mighty warm, boys.
The air is cold and dank,
And the cursed fog it gets so thick
That you cannot see the bank. CHORUS

Now the current's got her
We gonna take in the slack,
Float her down to Shawneetown
And then bushwhack her back. CHORUS

Hope this helps

Sincerely,

T.O.M/John Minear