Carter, when Capt. Leighton Robinson (1871-1956) sang "Whiskey, Johnny" for Sidney Robertson Cowell in California in 1939, it went like this:

Oh, whisky here and whiskey there,
   Whisky, Johnny!
Oh, whisky here and whisky there,
   Whisky for me Johnny!

[similarly:]

Oh, I'll drink whisky when I can,
Oh, I'll drink whisky while I can.
                                       
Oh, whisky gave me a broken nose....
And whisky made me pawn my clothes....

Oh, if whisky were a river and I were a duck....
I'd swim around till I got blind drunk....

Oh, whisky landed me in jail....
Oh, whisky in an old tin pail....

(Robinson was at sea from 1885 to 1905.)