And I might as well repost here this old minstrel song from about 1850 that I came across with the title "Whoop Jamboree" but with entirely different verses about steamboating on the Mississppi:
Whoop, Jam-bo-ree
(As sung by Daniel Decator Emmett and the Virginia Minstrels at White's Melodeon in New York City , circa 1850, in imitation of the Mississippi riverboatmen; in CHRISTY'S PANORAMA SONGSTER, published by William H. Murphy, NYC, pp. 135-136)
I went down to New Orleans, I tink myself a man, De first place I fotched up was on board de Talleyrann.
Chorus:
Whoop, jam-bo-ree! Whoop, jam-bo-ree! Vinegar shoes and paper stockings, Git up, ole hoss!
When I get on board de boat, de captain look aroun'- "O put de nigger's heels on shore, dey've got de boat aground." (CHO)
Den I look about de boat, to see what I could see – When de nigger 'gin to laff, he stopped de she-na-ree! (CHO)
Den dey punch de fires up, to make de bilers burn – De ingineer he went behind to gib her anudder turn. (CHO)
De captain on de biler deck, a-scratchin' ob his head – An' jawing ob de deck hand, a-heavin' ob de lead. (CHO)
Den dey hoist de dish-cloth, and spread it to de breeze, It floated like de udder haff ob tudder haff a cheese. (CHO)
De nigger an' de bullgine, dey running in cahoot – De nigger pass de bullgine gwine through de (chuite) shoot. (CHO)
I gits upon de cook-house, I call for glass ob gin, De nigger nearer heaben den I eber was agin. (CHO)