South Australia (Roud # 325) is a capstan shanty, also known under such titles as "Rolling King" and "Bound for South Australia". This has an extended form - a call and response verse section and a refrain sung by all. As an original worksong it was sung in a variety of trades, including being used by the wool and later the wheat traders who worked the clipper ships between Australian ports and London. It was first noted by sea music author L.A. Smith, who collected it "from a coloured seaman at the [Sailors'] 'Home'" in London and published it in her 1888 collection, The Music of the Waters. In the 1930s or 1940s, at Sailors' Snug Harbor, New York, shanty collector William Main Doerflinger recorded veteran sailor William Laurie of Greenock, Scotland, who began a career in sailing ships in the late 1870s. The one verse sung by Laurie was published, with tune, in Doerflinger's 1951 book Shantymen and Shantyboys: Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman. The song has been recorded many times in both traditional and modern arrangements. Recordings include: A.L. Lloyd, A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl, The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem, The Hardtackers and others. I probably learned it from the Clancys.