Thanks for the post, Mick.

The same text then appeared in the Norton County News (Norton, Kans.) (Oct. 12, 1916), p. 8; and a very similar one in the Boston Evening Transcript (Dec. 30, 1926), "a true copy" credited to "S.H."

"S.H.'s" text reappeared, via an intermediate source, in in the Journal of American Folklore in 1922.

A similar version is printed in the Saskatoon Daily Star (Apr. 7, 1922), p. 4.

I suspect that Mrs. LaFreniere's lies behind all of these.

The tunes I've encountered are all clearly related. What else is related?

(Either Hugill or Doerflinger also weds it to "Go to Sea No More.")