Does anybody know anything about this shanty? I heard Stan Hugill sing it at Mystic in 1988. It isn't in any of his books. The whole thing sounds rather contrived to me, but Bill Adams quoted a couple of lines of it in a brief article he wrote in the 1920s.

The shanty begins something like,

Whaling Johnny went to sea,
Cho.: Whaling Johnny high-ho!
A handy, dandy boy was he.
Cho: Away, my boys, for Hilo!

Alaska and the Sulu Sea are mentioned.