“Harry and Rodrigo followed, and soon found themselves under a portico, in company with the cloaked stranger, and three or four of his comrades. An angry crowd of Mexicans were yelling and shouting at no great distance, a furious mob of one of the most vindictive races on the continent of America—cowardly and brutish.

“Be ready!” said the commanding voice of the officer of the “Sea King.”

At , the same moment he gave a shrill whistle, louder than of a boatswain's in a storm, and next instant a large body of men came rushing with drawn cutlasses and singing, in seaman twang, some doggrel lines then popular—

        Sally in the garden, sifting sand,
        Jenny talking with a hog-eyed man;
                In a hog eye,
                In a hog eye,
        For all she wants is a hog-eyed man,
                With a heave oh, heave oh!
                Heave oh in a hog eye.

Either the unearthly sound of the forecastle ditty, or the sight of the cutlasses, had a magic effect. The Mexicans drew back to a respectful distance, shouting, but making no attempt to attack either officers or men.”
[St.John, Percy B., The Scourge of the Seas, Ch.V, Vera Cruz, (British Boys' Paper, 30 June 1888, p.284)]

Is this is Hog-Eye's earliest brush with pirate opera, a 'forebitter war cry?'