Here's some wording changes I've made to verse 2 and 3 while learning the song:

So black the night, the gale it screamed,
On Christmas night, on Christmas night!
Like gushing wounds her swing-ports streamed;
On Christmas night till the morning!
All ice the yard to which we clung,
The frozen shrouds shrill carols sung,
Like harps the twanging backstays rung –
All the night long till the morning!

We called "All hands!" We hove her to,
On Christmas night, on Christmas night!
And nothing more was left to do
On Christmas night till the morning!
Then we hung on all, to wait and pray
For nothing else to carry away,
So she might last till the break of day –
All the night long till the morning!

The tune is holding up well.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble