Here's the version that's been proposed for the Rise Again songbook. It comes from one of "those" Websites, the ones I don't usually trust: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/k/kingston_trio/bay_of_mexico.html
Turns out the lyrics are from the self-titled Kingston Trio album (1958).


Round the Bay of Mexico

Round that Bay of Mexico / Way oh, Susianna!
Mexico is the place that I belong in / Round the Bay of Mexico
C - G C / - - F C / F Em Dm G / C - G C
Wind from the East & it's blowin' strong / Way oh…
Looks like a hurricane comin' along, well / Round…

Wind will blow & that rain will pour
Better get the sugar boats up on the shore, now

Why those young gals love me so?
'Cos I don't tell ev'rything that I know

When I was a young man & in my prime
Court those young girls 10 at a time, boys

Nassau girls ain't got no comb
Comb their hair with a whipper back bone

When I leave the sea, I'll settle down
With a big, fat mama from Bimini town

trad. (Amer.)
Rec by Belafonte, Weavers, Kingston Trio, etc.
In Coll Reprints fr SO V1-6, SO 7:4
c + jk