Helen Creighton, in her 1932 tome, "Songs and Ballads of Nova Scotia" gives the song in question the title of "The Lakes of Ponchertrain." She collected it from    a Mrs. Thomas Osborne, Eastern passage, but gives no date when. She further adds that the more common name of the song is "The Creole Girl."

This does predate the source given by the captain by a few years. Incidentally, who collected it and from whom in Louisiana?

- Tom Hall