I learned the song from Paul Morris in Ontario, who sang it to the tune composed by the late David Parry of Ottawa. It's on David's "Man From Eldorado" album of Service poems set to music. I don't think he sings the verse about the "shanty man", and I wasn't even aware of it, so I didn't have to worry about the reference to the "black man".

Modesty doesn't prevent me mentioning that I recorded it on my "Anglophilia" CD.