Here's a version of the song from the Great Lakes in America. The tune to this one is a bit different too. I'll work it up in ABC notation and post.

TOMMY'S GONE TO HILO
Ivan H. Walton and Joe Grimm, 2002, Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors

Oh, Tommy's gone, what shall I do?
Chorus: Away to Hilo!
Oh, Tommy's gone and I'll go too
Chorus: My Tommy's gone to Hilo!

Oh, Tommy's gone to New York town
The Bowery girls to dance around

Oh, Tommy's gone to Baltimore
To live upon that happy shore

Oh, Tommy's gone to Mobile Bay
The cotton bales to load all day

Oh, Tommy's gone to New Orleans
Where rum is free and the maidens queens

Oh, Tommy's gone to London town
Where skysail ships go up and down

Oh, Tommy's gone to Liverpool
Oh, Tommy's gone to Liverpool

Oh, Tommy's gone to Buffalo
To live at ease and make some dough

Oh, Tommy's gone to the Rio Grande
Where the seas wash over golden sand

Oh, Tommy's gone around the Horn
An' Tommy'll wish he'd not been born

Oh, Tommy's gone to Singapore
Oh, Tommy's gone for evermore

I think I heard the captain say
Just one more pull and then belay

The Old Man's asleep, or he would say
"She's high enough, belay, belay!"