LOWLANDS - Mobile Bay version

Lowlands, lowlands,
Away, my John,
We're bound away to Mobile Bay.
My dollar and a half a day.

O was you ever in Mobile Bay?
Lowlands, lowlands,
Away, my John
A-screwin' cotton by the day.
My dollar and a half a day.

The white man's pay is rather high,
Lowlands, lowlands,
The black man's pay is rather low,
My dollar and a half a day.

O, my old mother, she wrote to me,
Lowlands, lowlands,
Away, my John.
She wrote to me to come home from sea.
My dollar and a half a day.

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I have included the tune I have in case it is different from the one John in Brisbane has.