I found the words & music on a NZ site - and with a different spelling to that used by New Zealand singer Mike Harding, whose version I have.

http://folksong.org.nz/davylows/index.html

I have ended each line with / just in case it goes feral & needa a JoeClone to make it look like a song.

sandra

Davy Lowston
(trad)

Oh my name is Davy Lowston, I did seal, I did seal./
My name is Davy Lowston, I did seal/
Though my men and I were lost, though our very lives it cost/
We did seal, we did seal, we did seal/


We were set down in Open Bay, we were set down, were set down./
We were set down in Open Bay, we were set down/
We were left we gallant men, never more to sail again/
(T'was on the sixteenth day, of Feb-ru-ar-i-ay)/
For to seal, for to seal, for to seal./


Our Captain John Bedar he set sail, he set sail./
Our Captain John Bedar he set sail/
"I'll return, men, without fail". But she foundered in a gale,/
And went down, and went down, and went down./


We cured ten thousand skins for the fur, for the fur./
We cured ten thousand skins for the fur./
Brackish water, putrid seal, we did all of us fall ill,/
For to die, for to die, for to die. /


Come all you sailor lads who sail the sea, sail the sea,/
Come all you jolly tars who sail the sea,/
Though the schooner Governor Bligh took on some who did not die /
Never seal, never seal, never seal./