mav's comment in the ROVE thread*, has me wonder if i have been hearing a mondegreen, in the sea shanty,

Heave away, haul (or is it pawl?) away,
We're bound for South Australia!

*The word he quotes in that thread are close to versions i have heard...
i know lines or two from hundreds of folk songs and shanties i have heard over the year.. when it comes to drinking songs, i usually know all of the words!