Geo was looking at this one of late, and since it does supply data for 1880s, now is a fine time for me to log it here.

1946        Hatfield, James Taft. "Some Nineteenth Century Shanties." _Journal of American Folklore_ 59(232): 108-113.

In 1886, prior to July, Hatfield traveled from Pensacola to Nice on the bark AHKERA. The crew was, evidently, all Black men from Jamaica. There were a few different guys that cted as chantyman. Hatfield, at the time of writing, was family with the collections of Colcord, Frothingham, Masefield, and L.A. Smith. However, he aims to present strictly the renderings of these chanties as he heard them in '86. Hatfield was adimant that he had noted all the chanties at the time he heard them. The current notations are the result of fixing them up with the help of his daughter, at the piano.

His daughter notes, of her deceased father,
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He told me that he often requested them [the chanty-singers] to begin again and again until he could note the exact timing and melody. He stressed this point to me often, as we went over each melody, with the
Colcord, Frothingham, etc., books lying open on my piano for comparison; and when I asked
if one or another might have been similar to certain texts, and whether, because of this similarity,
he might have inadvertently confused published texts with the original tunes forgotten
during the years, he turned to me to say, 'My dear, these are the original papers which I carried
in my pocket on the boat. How could I forget tunes which are here in black and white?'
//

Hatfield claims that though he often traveled by sea again after this trip, he never again heard a chanty!

His versions of items are all appreciably unique.

BLOW THE MAN DOWN:
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1. BLOW A MAN DOWN
O 'low me some time for to blow a man down!
Too ma hay ho, blow a man down.
Blow the man down in the hold below,
O give me some time to blow a man down!

From starboard to larboard away we will go!
From larboard to starbord away we will go!

W:O, hip, hip, hip, and away we will go!
We'll rise and shine and make her go!
//

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2. RIO GRANDE
Rio Grande I took my stay,
and away we'll go!
Sing fare ye well, my bonny young girl,
I am bound for Rio Grande.

The ship went sailing over the bar;
The pointed her nose for the southern star.
//
The opening of this melody, especially, is appreciably different from most versions.

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3. FIRE DOWN BELOW
Easy, easy, John Brown!
Too ma ha-a-a-ay, ho!
Easy John Brown, why don't you come along?
O, fire down be-low
Fire in the main-top, fire down below;
Too ma ha-a-a-ay, ho!
Fire in the main-top, fire down below,
O, fire down below
//

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4. SHINY O!
Captain, Captain, you love your brandy,
A-a-a-a-a-ay, shiny O!
Captain, Captain, I love your daughter,
A-a-a-a-a-ay, Shiny O!

O ferryman, ferryman, won't you ferry me over?
Won't you ferry me from Queenstown across over to Dover?

O from Queenstown to Dover's a hundred miles or over;
From Queenstown to Dover's a hundred miles or over!

Captain, Captain, how deep is the water?
She measures one inch, six feet and a quarter.

The Hen and the Chickens were all flying over,
And when she pitches, she pitches into Dover.

O Captain, Captain, what is the matter?
I lose my wife and my pretty little daughter.

O rivers, rivers, rivers are rolling;
Rivers are rolling and I can't get over!
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Hatfield notes that he thinks he was the only collector offer this item. It personally reminds me of both Bullen's version of "Shenandoah" and the currently-popular "Bound Down Trinidad, to look for Sunnydore." (The thread for Shiny O is freshly revived at present, and I've been having some fun with it.)


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5. SALLY BROWN
Saly Brown was a bright mulatto,
Yay ho o, roll and go!
Roll on, go on to roll me over,
Spend my money on Sally Brown

Spend my money on the black-eyed Susannah.
//
The phrase "Roll on, go on to roll me over" has a rather unique melody, and it looks like maybe its lyrics stay the same each verse.

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6. NANCY RHEE
Nancy Rhee, O Nancy Rhee,
My gallant Nancy Rhee!
O, why don't you come along,
my gallant Nancy Rhee?

The Austral is the ship for me!
//
The melody is in harmonic minor. "Miss Nancy Ray" was a digging song collected by Jekyll in Jamaica, however it does not resemble this. Perhaps "Nancy Ray" is a trope in Jamaican songs, like 'Sally Brown" in chanties.

REUBEN RANZO:
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7. RANZO
O, Ranzo was no sailor,
Ranzo, boys, Ranzo.
He shipped on board a whaler
Ranzo, boys, Ranzo.

He shipped with Captain Taylor,
He shipped with Captain Taylor,

He could not do his duty;
The captain sent him up aloft.

He was standing on the gangway
A nice young girl walked on the poop.

"O, I should like to marry you!"
"To marry me would never do

For I am the Captain's daugher,
And you are a poor Scotchman."

But the captain was a good man;
He took him in the cabin,

And he learned him the navigation,
And gave him whiskey and brandy.

O, whiskey for the Irishman,
And lime-juice for the Englishman;

And stockfish for the Norwegian,
And baked beans for the Yankees.
//

Next is a relative to HEAVE AWAY MY JOHNNIES. However, Hatfiedl says it was "Not found elsewhere." He obviously was not looking in books about African-American songs. Really, it is just like the "Henry Clay" version of "Heave Away" that was first cited as a steamboat fireman's song by Allen in his Slave Songs.
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8. BOUND TO GO
Heave away, John Brown A-a-a-a-ay!
Three pretty girls bound for Baltimore city,
Heave away my bonny boy, we're all bound to go!

You yellow girl, now let'a me go!
//

SOUTH AUSTRALIA is fascinating. This would date to around the time (decade) that L.A. Smith collected her version. How do they compare?
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CHO: Hooray! You're a lanky!
Heave away haul away! Hooray You're a lanky!
I'm bound for South Australia
SOLO: What makes you call me a ruler and king?
CHO: Heave away! Haul away!
SOLO: 'Cause I'm married to an Indian queen,
CHO: I'm bound for South Australia

'Cause I wear a diamond ring.
//
Though the pitches of the chorus (both heave and haul!) compare well with other versions, the rhythm is funny. I'm not buying the daughter's assertion to Hatfield was absolutely precise about his notations!
The "lanky" in this – surely something misheard?—is more confusing than the "ruler and king".

JOHNNY COME DOWN TO HILO. This is actually the first/earliest ascribed deepwater version of this (in this thread).
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10. SHAKE HER UP
Shake her up and make her go!
O, shake that girl with a blue dress on!
O me Johnny come along, too ma high low,
This poor old man!
//

"Not found elsewhere."
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11. WAY DOWN LOW
Ev'ry day the sun goes down,
Way down low!
Ev'ry day the sun goes down,
Way down low!
//

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12. WHISKEY JOHNNY
CHO: O whiskey! O Johnny!
SOLO: O whiskey is the life of man,
and a whis key for my Johnny!
The Captain he drinks whiskey,
And a whiskey, and a whiskey,
But he won't give us none, boys!
And a whisky for my Johnny!

O, whiskey made me pawn my clothes,
And whiskey gave me a broken nose.

When the whiskey's gone, what shall we do?
When the whiskey's gone, will I go too!

I'll drink my whiskey while I can;
A small drop of whisky wouldn't do no harm!
//