Possible Clues:

• Poor and little, as is my wont, it seems
• Song about a little creature meek and timid
• Refuse to start a song of the sea
• Won't they get rid of the shack?
• Able to sing it?
• Poor home - sailors' song
• A traditional sailors' ballad
• A sailor's traditional song
• Ramshackle dwelling
• A song for sailors or a ramshackle house