Whalers don't get much of a mention on any subject however, there is nothing in the sources to suggest whalers were a world apart from the maritime in general. And everybody's work 'songs' came in two parts.

The was no shortage of professional musician/song leaders on larger vessels, R.N & East India Fleets inclusive. The trans-Atlantic cable crews had upwards of two hundred men on four capstans. They used a fiddler to keep time. Fiddlers rarely sing and fifers can't. There will be no 'call' or 'verse.'

The chorus or reply may still be present, or not. It is not possible to project/predict from the general document record how any one vessel might have got on.