There's also a 12-verse version of "Taking Gair in the Night" in Edith Fowke's 'Traditional Singers and Songs from Ontario' - Folklore Associates 1965. She collected it from Albert Simms in February 1958; he was born and learned his songs in Newfoundland.
In her notes on the song Fowke says:- This is a local Newfoundland song that Albert Simms learned ...... about 1928. Albert says that he knew Jerry Fudge, the man who made up the song; he was a young fisherman about 23 years of age.
Although "Taking Gair in the Night" was a local song, it has survived in tradition for at least 30 years: Kenneth Peacock found a shorter version of it in Rose Blanche, Newfoundland in 1959.
The young Canadian singer, Karen James, has recently recorded it as she learned it from my tape of Mr. Simms.