Donald Duncan, of the Greater Boston Folksong Society and active Revels participant, asked about Ed's source a while back. I had forgotten that Ed got it from Huntington by way of Lawrence Older (Adirondack woodsman and singer). We then checked to see if either Ed or Lawrence had made the tempo shift, and found that they had it just the way Huntington had sung it - 4/4 time, not 3/4. Huntington gathered much of his material from his wife's kinfolk, the famous Tilton family of seafarers from Martha's Vinyard. Larry Kaplan's song "Old Zeb" is about one member of the clan. Wonderful song!

Sandy