Sounds like a variant of:

ACROSS THE WESTERN OCEAN

Oh the times are hard and the wages low
  Amelia, where you bound to?
The Rocky Mountains is my home
  Across the western ocean.

It's a land of plenty there you'll see....
I'm off across the western sea....

To Liverpool I'll make my way....
To Liverpool that Yankee school....

There's Liverpool Pat with his tarpaulin hat....
And Yankee John the packet rat....

Beware those packet ships, I pray,....
They'll steal your stores and your clothes away....