These lyrics are from Barry Finn (U.S.), who heard the song from a Polish chantey singer, Mareck Schakowsky, who in turn got it from Roy Harris (U.K.). Roy found the tune and a fragmentary text on a recording in the Robert W. Gordon collection at the Library of Congress. Just as Roy and Barry have provided verses today, so did the sailors and collectors in their day. Barry Finn says he picked it up from Mareck Schakowsky in the summer of 1992 during the tall ships visit to Boston (U.S.). Mareck was acting as first mate aboard the wishbone schooner the Zawisza Czarny (the Black Knight).