The link above to the lyrics and a MP3 sample now work.

Here's a short bio of William McFee:

William McFee was a marine engineer who also was an excellent writer of nautical novels, short stories and poems. He was raised in a sea-faring family near London, trained as a mechanical engineer, and for ten years of his life worked as a marine engineer aboard commercial freighters where much of his early writing was done. In 1924 McFee retired from life at sea to the States where he dedicated the rest of his long life to his literary efforts.

There's a much longer bio on his page at the Oldpoetry Website: Click here for website

And there are some other interesting poems he wrote as well. I especially like the poem, "The Day's Work," from his apprentice days as a boiler engineer.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble