SHINY O!

Captain, Captain, you love your brandy,
A-a-a-a-a-ay, shiny O!
Captain, Captain, I love your daughter,
A-a-a-a-a-ay, Shiny O!

O ferryman, ferryman, won't you ferry me over?
Won't you ferry me from Queenstown across over to Dover?

O from Queenstown to Dover's a hundred miles or over;
From Queenstown to Dover's a hundred miles or over!

Captain, Captain, how deep is the water?
She measures one inch, six feet and a quarter.

The Hen and the Chickens were all flying over,
And when she pitches, she pitches into Dover.

O Captain, Captain, what is the matter?
I lose my wife and my pretty little daughter.

O rivers, rivers, rivers are rolling;
Rivers are rolling and I can't get over!

"My best "find," apparently not known. The melody might almost justify symphonic treatment." Note by author.

No. 4, with musical score.
"Some Nineteenth Century Shanties," James Taft Hatfield, pp. 108-113, JAFL, vol. 59, No. 232, Apr.-June 1946
(This is the article referenced in JSTOR)
Collected in 1886 by the author.