From Holman Day's "Blow the Man Down" (1916):

"O Johnny's gone to Baltimore
To dance upon that sanded floor.
O Johnny's gone for evermore;
I'll never see my John no more!

"O Johnny's gone! What shall I do?         
A-way you. H-e-e l-o-o-o!
0 Johnny's gone! What shall I do?
Johnny's gone to Hilo.

"—Old Hauling Song."

Also, from John M. Hunt, Marion, Va., 1933:

If I should die and be buried at sea,
A mermaid's sweetheart I would be.
Johnny's gone to Hilo!
Heelo! Hilo!
My Johnny's gone, what shall I do?
Johnny's gone to Hilo!