"Haul Away, Joe" is probably the best known short haul chanty. Commenters on the ethnic or national origins of shanties, writing in the 19th century when shanties were still in wide use, generally supposed the genre to originate in America and recognized parallels to African-American singing — as opposed to earlier English traditions from Britain. In an Oberlin College student paper in 1858 the author relates an incident in which he once heard "a well known strain of music," finding to his surprise that it was being sung by black men rowing canoes. He claimed they were singing, "Heigh Jim along, Jim along Josey, Heigh Jim along, Jim along Jo!" The implication is that this song was similar to a sailor song, probably the well-known shanty, "Haul Away, Joe" or "Haul Away for Rosie". "Haul Away, Joe" has been recorded by Burl Ives, Ewan MacColl, Roberts & Barrand, Louis Killen, The Kingston Trio and others. I learned it from The Kingston Trio recording and The Burl Ives Songbook.