Perhaps this one
Jim Carroll

The Roving Bachelor
Tune:)Gardiner H. 1089.William Bone, Medstead, Hants. Nov. 1907. Additional verses Text: (from Gardiner S.61.Harry Conybeare, Combe Florey, Somerset, 1905.

I am a roving bachelor
And have been all my life
And now I am resolving
To look me out a wife
To my fal-le-ral-la - rel - li-gee-wo,
Fal-le-ral-larel li - gee-wo.


Oh! such a wife as I shall choose,
She is not to be found,
Oh! such a wife as I shall choose,
She is not on the ground.

If I should marry a young one,
She'd kill me by her pride,
If I should marry an old one,
She'd lie grunting by my side.

If I should marry a tall one,
She'd crack me on the crown,
If I should marry a short one,
She'd pull me to the ground.

If I should marry an ugly one,
The boys would laugh at me,
If I should marry a pretty one,
A cuckoo I should be.

One night as I lay on my bed,
How strange it came to pass,
Who did I see by my bedside,
But a handsome roving lass.

The first thing that I asked of her,
If ever she were a maid,
The answer that she gave to me,
"Oh! yes, I am a maid. "

The next thing that I asked of her,
If ever she had a man,
The answer that she gave to me,
"Oh! yes, and when I can. ”