Richie, here is how it appears on one of Dick Burnett's ballet cards.


GOING AROUND THE WORLD

I'm going across the ocean friend of mine.
I'm going across the ocean friend of mine
I'm going across the ocean if I don't change my
notion.
I'm going around the world friend of mine

I'll write my girl a letter friend of mine
I'll write my girl a letter friend of mine
I'll write my girl a letter friend of mine and I'll
write my girl a letter and I'll tell her that she'd
better
For I'm going around the world friend of mine.

Oh! Come and sit by me girl O mine
Come and sit down by me girl O mine,
Come and sit down by me, say you love no one
but me, and we'll go around this world friend O
mine

Oh, give to me your hand girl O mine,
Oh! give to me your hand girl O mine,
Oh! give to me your hand. Say you love no other
man, And we'll go around the world, Girl O mine.

I may cross the sea girl of mine
I may cross the sea girl of mine.
I may cross the sea.
Oh, come and go with me. I'm going around the
world girl of mine

I'm going around the world friend of mine
I'm going around the world friend of mine
I've been around the world, with a banjo picking
girl, I've been around the world friend of mine
        ---Composed By
                                      R. D. Burnett
                                              Monticello, Ky.

Source: Printed at page 7 of booklet accompanying 'A Rambling Reckless Hobo: The Songs of Dick Burnett and Leonard Rutherford' Rounder LP 1004.

--Stewie.