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"Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Three Essays on Shantying in the West Indies" by Roger David Abrahams, "Published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press," 1974.

Page 58 contains this:

...
Louisiana, my darling, my Jane and Susanna,
We're bound right over the mountain.

Oh, the mountain so high and the valley so low,
Oh, Louisiana....

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