Thanks, Lighter, I appreciate that.
Viweres will find that they are hit or miss. I am not so worry, ultimately, if many fail as performances. My main interests are: 1) Learning the chanteys myself, with YouTube as a sort of step along the process of practicing/refining; 2) Getting the little black dots in Hugill's book into a sound format since, although many have been recorded before, many have not or else they have but not according in the often quirky versions that he offered in his first book!

KathyW, that's great! SO I checked it out and it turns out that Bullen's "Sister Susan" is almost identical to the one printed by another sailor, Harlow. The lyrics in their versions have more of a minstrel song "ring" to them, which makes sense since Hugill's version was probably a later one after the song had been shaped more by sailors.

"Shinbone Alley" of the song was mentioned in several minstrel songs, I think. One published in 1835 was called "Shinbone Alley" itself, and its first verse starts with the same structure as the chantey:

Old Miss Tuck and my aunt Sallie
Both lived down in Shinbone Alley


Gibb