Hi,
You can get a sense of the song from my rendition, below.

Even though I was engaging Hugill's text (he also gives a version of this song, learned from a shipmate), musically speaking I followed Harlow's text because I thought it made more sense. (At the time, I was not trying to represent Hugill's [sometimes wrong] notations note-for-note.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW1H47Y3RzU