A shift in meaning here. No longer the barge of the black gold rush bargemen.
Some sailor, aboard a British merchantman, created a new chantey, perhaps after hearing "Hog-Eye Man."
"The Ox-Eyed Man" was collected by Captain Tozer, British Merchant Marine (long P & O experience).

Lyr. Add: THE OX-EYED MAN
F. J. Davis

Solo
Oh, May looked up and she saw her fate
In the ox-eyed man passing by the gate.

Chorus
Heigh-ho for the ox-eyed man.

Solo
Oh, May in her garden a-shelling her peas,
Smil'd on the stranger who'd come o'er the seas.

Chorus

Solo
The ox-eyed man gave a fond look of love,
And charmed May's heart which was as pure as a dove.

Chorus

Solo
Oh, May in the parlour a-sitting on his knee,
And kissing the sailor who'd come o'er the sea.

Chorus

Oh, May in the garden a-shelling her peas,
Now weeps for the sailor who sail'd o'er the seas.

Chorus

With score, no. 44, p. 84, F. J. Davis and Ferris Tozer, "Sailors' Songs or 'Chanties,'" revised ed., Boosey & Co., Ltd., London & NY (First printing 1887, no date on revised ed., but c. 1913).