Many songs initially appeared in Nautical Magazine and Yachting Monthly before being compiled into the first edition, 1910.
A second edition in 1912 included a few more songs.
A third edition from 1913 is available from the Smithsonian Archives or the Internet Archive.
A fourth edition was published in 1920.
Index:
- Across the Western Ocean
- Adieu to Maimuna
- Admiral Benbow
- A-Roving
- The Banks of Sacramento
- The Black Ball Line
- Blow, Boys, Blow
- Blow the Man Down
- Blow, ye Winds in the Morning
- Boney
- Boston
- Bound to the Rio Grande
- The Buffalo
- Can't You Dance the Polka
- Cawsand Bay
- Challo Brown
- Cheer'ly Man
- Clear de Track, Let the Bulgine Run
- Come, Loose Every Sail to the Breeze
- The Dead Horse
- Dixie
- Doo Me Ama
- Early in the Morning
- Farewell and Adieu
- The Female Smuggler
- The Fishes
- Good-bye, Fare You Well
- Hanging Johnny
- Haul Away, Jo
- High Barbaree
- The Hog-Eye Man
- Homeward Bound
- A Hundred Years Ago
- Jamboree
- Johnny Boker
- John's Gone to Hilo
- Lowlands
- Negro Songs
- O, Fare you well, My Bonny Young Girls
- One More Day
- Paddy Doyle
- The Plains of Mexico
- Poor Paddy who works on the Railway
- Reuben Ranzo
- Rolling Home
- Run, Let the Bulgine Run
- Sally Brown
- The Saucy Arethusa
- Shakings
- Shannon and Chesapeake
- Shenandoah
- Sling the Flowing Bowl
- So Handy, My Girls
- St. Helena Soldier
- Stand to your Ground
- Stormalong
- The Twenty-fourth of February
- Unmooring
- The Voice of Her I Love
- We're All Bound to Go
- We'll Ranzo Way
- The Whale
- Whisky
- Will Watch