1913        Whall, W.B. Ships, Sea Songs and Shanties. Third edition, enlarged. Glasgow: James Brown & Sons.

Under the heading of, "Across the Western Ocean." Whall may have been the first author to voice the idea that "Leave Her" developed from "Western Ocean."

After giving the verses (and tune) he remembers to "Western Ocean," he gives two verses of what he calls the "more modern form." His wording suggests, to me, that it may not have been familiar to his sailing experience, but that in the time since then he has come to know it in these verses more recently, second hand.

O, the times are hard and the wages low,
Leave her, bullies, leave her;
I guess it's time for us to go,
It's time for us to leave her.

O, don't you hear our old man say,
Leave her, bullies, leave her
To-morrow you will get your pay,
It's time for us to leave her.