Les Filles de la Rochelle (The Daughters of La Rochelle)

Stan Hugill credits his version of this song to his shipmate Jean Loro:
This old forebitter was a favorite with the matelot, and in particular with my old shipmate Jean Loro, seaman from Nantes who once knew well the decks of the Borde sailing ships of Dunkerque. It has a fairylike quality about it, unlike other "Fille" songs that were so popular in French fo'c'sles; for example "La Fille de Sables" and "Les Filles de Camaret," both extremely bawdy.