key, Hilo, boys, hilo! The yellow girl a-livo-lick-alimbo-lee. Hilo, boys, hilo ! Oh-o, watchman, watchman, don't take me ! Hilo, boys, hilo ! For I have a wife and a large familee. Hilo, boys, hilo! Oh-o, two behind, and one before, Hilo, boys, hilo I And they marched me off to the watchhouse door. Hilo, boys, hilo! Oh-o, where's the man that bewitched the tureen ? Hilo, boys, hilo! Look in the galley and there you'll see him. Hilo, boys, hilo! Oh-o, the mate's on foc'sle, and the skipper's on the poop. Hilo, boys, hilo! And the cook's in the galley, playing with the soup. Hilo, boys, hilo ! Oh-o, the geese like the gander and the ducks like the drake, Hilo, boys, hilo ! And sweet Judy Callaghan, I'd die for your sake. Hilo, boys, hilo ! "Oh, belay!" shouts the mate, cutting short the "shantie," for the yard is mastheaded. Well, it's HILO BOYS. I love this text, the fact that it is extended and we are able to get a sense of the type of lines used -- rather than just getting a regulation verse and a note about how the rest was "nonsense." John Masefield was confident that "Haul on the bowline" must go back to the 16th C. because the bowline, by the 19th, was no longer a rope that needed a shanty. Other writers have rightly criticized Masefield for his assumption. However... It does seem unlikely that a shanty would arise telling the crew