"Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster new Era" (Lancaster, Pa.) (Aug. 2, 2014):

"As a civil War re-enactor, I recall many an evening sitting around the campfire, singing tunes such as 'Jolly Grog' while we passed around the chock bucket, a pail containing a gin-based liquid, which we tried to drain before it ate through the metal.

"It's all for me grog, me jolly, jolly grog, all gone for beer and tobacco. Spent all me tin down on South Street drinking gin, now across the western ocean we must wander.

"They don't write lyrics like that anymore. They can't. They're all in rehab."

South Street, in Manhattan, is the site of the very popular South Street Seaport Museum, and the home in the 1970s of the chantey group "X Seamens [sic] Institute," which recorded the song in 1973.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaCiPGCaomI

Their version includes the bed springs.

YouTube offers various other renditions, some even more ribald.