Here's another field-collected version.

1927        Eckstorm, Fannie Hardy and Mary Winslow Smyth. _Minstrelsy of Maine: Folk-songs and Ballads of the Woods and the Coast_. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Sung by Frank Stanley of Cranberry Isles, Maine, Nov. 1925.

Lowlands

I wish I was in Alewers Hall,
Lowlands, Lowlands, hurrah, my boys!
A-drinking luck to the old Black Ball,
My dollar and a half a day.


This is the third occurrence of a similar verse. Yet the "Hall" has been named Slewer's, Slomes, and Alewers! What hall are they talking about here? Some place in NY/Liverpool?