Thanks, Lighter, for your thoughts on "Time for us to go". And you are right about "Sally Brown". At this point all I can do is "suppose" and "maybe". Some version of "Sally Brown" may have been sung on the "Julia Ann". Historically, it's possible.

Joybell, I have Captain Pond's memoirs. As far as I know, the log of the "Julia Ann" was lost in the shipwreck in 1855. There is no mention of any songs or shanties in the memoirs. In other accounts of the last voyage by some of the Mormon passengers, there is only mention of singing hymns. I would be interested in any documented shanties sung on board any ships sailing from San Francisco to Sydney in the 1850s. Or for that matter, from anywhere to Australia in that decade. The crews were constantly getting mixed up and re-grouped and I'm supposing that the shanties did, too.

At this point, I'm looking at documented shanties for the first half of the 19th century. A big sweep, but not a lot of printed evidence from the time.