To Barry - I've googled those two you mention, above, from my repertoire , and one site does mention an Irish tune, as you say, but another says English shanty..? Also, the first line I've been singing to "Tommy's Gone to Hilo" is "My Tommy's gone from Liverpool"..? I don't have a copy of either the Oxford or the Penguin book of English folk songs, nor can my library find one, for me to check, so perhaps someone else can, please.