Hey, chanteyranger, didn't that guy (sorry, I forget his name;my brain is fried in the East Coast heat)who did the one-man "Two Years Before the Mast" show say that he had had some contact with a direct descendant of Dana's? Maybe that's a contact for finding personal papers.

In regard to land songs used at sea, I believe I recall hearing "Twist and Shout" and "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" used as halyard chanties.