I was just working up Tom the Barber when I remembered this version.

You're right, Matthew - if you see this! - it's a good text & an excellent tune.

On the disputed word in v6, I wonder if it's

Then call him down, the salt sea clown, and bring him here to me

There's a similar internal rhyme in v7 - and 'clown' doesn't necessarily mean 'clown' in the modern sense; it was in use to mean 'peasant' well into the nineteenth century.