Gibb,


Only the lyrics, no tunes

< And are all of them meant to be shanties/work-songs? Any clue to how or when they were used?>

Briggs states: "There are several kinds of shanty: the capstan or hoisting shanty, sung when at the capstan, warping or weighing anchor or hoisting topsails; the halyard shanty, sung when the topsails and topgallants are being mast-headed; and the sheet-tack and bowline shanty, used when the fore, main and other sheets are hauled aft and the bowlines made taut.   There is also the bastard shanty, so-called; it is a runaway chorus, sung by all hands as they race across the deck with a rope; you hear it in tacking ship."


Right the chorus is: "Oh, give me the time to blow the man down!"
And he gives 14 verses
But: The Ship "Neptune" also has a chorus line: "Give me some time to blow the man down!"


Briggs states that Orenzo was "Another version of the same shanty was written for me by Lawrence, an old sailor of our crew."
with 22 verses.

Also, There is mention of a shantie: "Here Comes Old Wabbleton a-Walking the Deck", but there is a line in The Ship "Neptune" that goes "Oh! don't you see Wabbleton walking the poop?"