Thanks very much, Mick.

I see I can get a hard copy of "Roll and Go" from our university library this weekend. Will do so.

My copy of Doerflinger is the 1990 "edition, with additions and modifications," so beware.

Besides the variations in words and in the number of stanzas, the most obvious difference between the version you post above and the one in Doerflinger (both credited to Maitland) is that the couplets of the latter tell the same story but *never rhyme*!

This makes me wonder whether the singer's memory was going by the time D. recorded him. All of M's chanteys in D. are flawed in a similar way.

Moreover, the refrain switch from '38 to '64 is quite bizarre.