Julia L
The Ripest of Apples from Journal of the Folk-Song Society 1:2 (1900) p.45
"'Down East' coast song, from the neighbourhood of Portland, Maine"
Three footnotes on the text as follows:

'Soon'(verse 1) "markedly peculiar, pronounced not unlike the German 'dunn'."
'deep', 'find' (verse 2) and 'far' (verse 3) Strong accent, delling note"
'Boats (verse 2) pronounced in New England coast dialect to rhyme with French 'bottes'.

That's all there is I'm afraid
Jim Carroll