I have a version, collected in Portsmouth (Hants. UK) Workhouse Infirmary by Dr. Gardiner in 1907, that I think is very English, that goes like this:

Boney - from James G. Bounds, ex-seaman aged 52

Oh, Boney was a warrior,
        Oh, weigh heigh ya
A warrior and a terrior (sic),
        John BrownÕs war.

Boney went a cruising, etc.
In the Channel of Old England, etc.

And Nelson also went also a-cruising
He fought with noble Boney

And Boney got taken prisoner,
And Boney got taken prisoner

He got sent to St. Helena,
There he died a prisoner.