Hi Durham Lad, If you heard it in Durham it was possibly this version which I learned from Barry Skinner around 1966 in Shotley Bridge Co Durham. It is much like the version from lamarca but one or two words are diferent.

In Manchester a city of cotton twist and twills
Lived the subject of my song the cause of all my ills
She was hansome young and twenty and her eyes were azure blue
Admirers she had plenty and they called her Dorothy Drew

She was very fond of dancing but allow me to remark
One fine day she danced away with the calico printers clerk

At a private ball I met her in eighteen sixty three
I never will forget her though she's been unkind to me
Dressed in the peak of fashion my lavender gloves were new
I danced the waltz "Cartesian" with the charming Dorothy Drew

We Schottisched and we polka'd to the tunes the band did play
We Waltzed and we Mazurke'd she danced my heart away
I knew that in this fashion as round the room we flew
That during the Waltz "Sylvanians" I loved that Dorothy Drew

Well months and months attention unto her I did pay
To win her condescension she led me quite astray
The money I expended I'm ashamed to tell to you
But I'll tell you how it ended 'tween myself and Dorothy Drew

I recieved an invitation she'd a message then to pay
Unto some near relation who lived quite a while away
In a month she'd be returning I must bid a short adeau
Her love for me was burning Oh the single Dorothy Drew

At nine o'clock next morning to breakfast I sat down
The smiling face upon me well it soon changed to a frown
For in the morning paper a paragraph caught my view
That Jones the calico printers clerk had married Dorothy Drew

Cheers Bill