Found a short clip; doesn't sound like anything I know (slow and dull) but it is also labeled Sea Chantey No. 2, so Gibb Sahib may be right. The notes on a cat. of Grainger works:

"Dollar and a half a day
Sea Chantey Settings Nr. 2
"Two versions of a Capstan or Windlass Chantey, by kind permission of Charles Rosher, C. E.,FRGS and H. E. Piggott.
"Mr Perring said this was a 'tipical' ('ti' rhymes with 'my') Negro Chantey, sung by Negro sailors in the East India trade, in complaint at their being harder worked and lower-waged than white seamen. The vowel a in alf was sounded as in the usual American pronunciation of half, i. e., like the first vowel sound in hair (standard English pronunciation).
"For other variants of these chanties, for notes upon them and for a description of Mr. Perring's singing see "Journal of the Folk-Song Society, No. 12."

From "A Source Guide to the Music of Percy Grainger," Thomas P. Lewis.
Grainger Guide