was: "We are homeward bound for Liverpool Town, Good-bye fare ye well, good-bye fare ye well; Homeward bound for Liverpool town?" // Old Stormalong has gone to rest, Of all the sailors he was the best; We'll dig his grave with a silver spade, And lower him down with a golden chain? By all his shipmates blest. To my aye, aye, Mister Stormalong. Etc., etc. // P157: // The first chantey was "Leave her, Johnny, leave her": "A leaky ship and a drunken skipper, It is time for us to leave her; Captain drinks whisky and rum?" George H. Haswell was a passenger on board S.S. Pamaratta, London to Sydney, in the fall of 1879. He noted ten shanties with their melodies as sung during the voyage and published them in the passengers' on-board newspaper, "The Paramatta Sun." Graham Seal transcribed Haswell's work in a booklet called "Ten Shanties Sung on the Australian Run 1879" (Antipodes Press, 1992). This is an extremely valuable collection because it was made on the spot before much on shanties - or their music - had been published. Even more interesting, L. A. Smith tells us in "Music of the Waters" (1884) that another Pamaratta passenger had sent her all the shanties Haswell had printed, and she includes them, mostly accurately and complete, in her own book. This is unfortunate because that publication allowed the Pamaratta shanties to influence all post-1884 collectors to some degree when otherwise they would have been a unique standard of