Here's how I have it, from the singing of Tom Lewis. I understand that he changed the last verse, and I think, the second, and that the original does not have a chorus; that what is listed here as chorus is just the first verse.
The problem (if you can call it that), is that the tune is gorgeous, and people want to sing along. So a 'chorus' has evolved.
Hope that's not too upsetting to you who know the original. I have it written out as I know it, but I'd love to see it posted closer to the source than that.
Blessings,
Barbara

BORNEO (song for Vic)
Ken Cockrell
Chorus:
Oh, not for me the sun brings the morning-o
No not for me of patient mind
No more for me long hauls down to Borneo
For I am old and I am blind

Yet in my mind the vision still is clear
Of crow's nest days so long ago
With both eyes peeled for dangers far and near
I hear again the cry: "Sail ho."

They tell me now that ships are twice as long
With masts of steel and hulls of iron
Just 'cause I'm blind you can't fool me, my lads
For they would sink beneath the brine

Now as I sit on foggy ev-en-ings
A plaintive siren taunts my ear
And minds me when I was sailor lad
For that's the sound by which I'd steer

And from my bed November mornings
I'd feel the tremble, hear the roar
And pray for those in peril on the sea
And all my shipmates, gone before