Not the same song, but there's the line: "John come down de hollow." Quoted from
Francis Fedric, Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (1863):

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In the autumn, about the 1st of November, the slaves commence gathering the Indian-corn, pulling it off the stalk, and throwing it into heaps. Then it is carted home, and thrown into heaps sixty or seventy yards long, seven or eight feet high, and about six or seven feet wide. Some of the masters make their slaves shuck the corn. All the slaves stand on one side of the heap, and throw the ears over, which
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are then cribbed. This is the time when the whole country far and wide resounds with the corn-songs. When they commence shucking the corn, the master will say, "Ain't you going to sing any to-night?" The slaves say, "Yers, Sir." One slave will begin:--

                         "Fare you well, Miss Lucy.
                         ALL. John come down de hollow."

The next song will be:--

                         "Fare you well, fare you well.
                         ALL. Weell ho. Weell ho.
                         CAPTAIN. Fare you well, young ladies all.
                         ALL. Weell. ho. Weell ho.
                         CAPTAIN. Fare you well, I'm going away.
                         ALL. Weell ho. Weell ho.
                         CAPTAIN. I'm going away to Canada.
                         ALL. Weell ho. Weell ho."