sun shall rise; And here's to the dead already, And hurrah for the next that dies." Then they heard him sing: "The standards was gone and the chains they was jammed? With a heigh-ho, blow the man down; And the skipper, says he, 'Let the weather be damned? Oh, give me some time to blow the man down.'" // "Yo, heave ho!" -- as a phrase -- has been noted numerous times. I think we've generally seen that it constituted a sort of chant in the pre-"chanties" days. It's still not totally clear to me if it was at all more like a song, if it had more complicated texts, etc. But I have a few more references, to add to the picture. 1807 "A Gentleman Lately Returned from the West Indies." "Descriptions, Remarks, Anecdotes, and Sentiments, during a Voyage from the West Indies to North America, and from thence to England, and during the Author's Rambles in the two latter Countries." _The European Magazine and London Review_ 51 (Feb. 1807). pp110- It's a voyage in June 1806 from Jamaica to New York. // About two o'clock P.M. our poor cook died; and soon after, having read the funeral service over him, his body was committed to the deep. An affecting circumstance of him [ cannot forbear here to relate. In the morning he was extremely weak, and some what delirious. The Captain went to see him, and asked him how he was. The poor fellow said he was "Pretty