Pending young Mr. Douglas contributing, wasn't this the song Sharp gave up collecting because 'every' singer had it? Yankee Jack (John Short)sang a set to a Heave Away Me Johnnies shanty. My set was 'corrercted'from Charlie Bate in Cornwall in the 1960s - "Not bad Boy, but down here we used to sing it like this", nobody ever knew he knew it!
Tom