Oh, whenever I went away, the story I'd like to tell, About an 'andy little bark, the Campañero! Oh, the skipper, he is a bulldozer, And you never did hear the words that come from a man's mouth so often. The mate he wants to fight, and the durin' every night, The boys around the hatch they all surround him.
ChorusSo it's between the coko and the pump, Well, they drive me off me chump On that handy little bark, the Campañero! But if it's ever up to me, Well, I'd never go to sea, About that handy little bark, the Campañero!
Well, I'd have you all to know that wherever you do go, If you see the name a-running fore-and-aft her, Don't jine her anywhere, or you'll never forget the day That you jined that 'andy little bark, the Campañero! You may ring around the world, and go just where you please. She's a livin' at a single time for days and months. But if you'll take a sailor's advice, you'll get married once or twice, Before you jine that 'andy little bark, the Campañero!

This humorous pumping shanty was sung to Doerflinger by Captain Patrick Tayluer, who believed the bark Campanero sailed from Baltimore in the Brazilian coffee trade.

Doerflinger (Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman) explains that

the singer takes the usual liberty with the tempo all the way through the song. In singing this song, the one thing to remember is not to “jam” the words in if they don’t seem to fit- simply add another beat in the measure.

Tayluer’s additional unrecorded verses described how the narrator joined up with the bark in New York. Robert Frothingham gives an excerpt in Adventure Magazine, 1922