I need to back-peddle from a comment I made in the OP. About "John Cherokee", I thought I remembered finding Hugill had changed his performance of it. I thought I remembered some later recording that was different than the earlier and his book. Well, I wasn't on drugs, so maybe lack of drugs explain it! I checked again, and on his later recording of it, 1979, he did sing it in his "book" way. I have not heard his 1962 recording, but it seems only possible that he would have sung it that way, too.

Where I got confused, i think, is that Marc Bernier of Mystic Seaport chanty staff said on another thread that when that group put together their booklet of songs, he transcribed them in just the way people sung. He stated that the SfSS melody was not what Hugill was singing at that time (i.e. the 1980s, I guess), and that the form of melody now well known in the Revival scene is what Hugill sang. I don't have any other evidence to verify that claim though -- one that would imply Hugill caved (?) to singing it the Revival way in the 1980s.