I was at Common Ground on the Hill in Westminster this year and Paul Crighton gave me an unmarked CD with Burns songs and others he'd made, among them William Taylor. I googled the lyrics, but other versions of this song have radically different words (although the gist of the lyrics are identical.) Can somebody help me out?

When Taylor was a (brash? British?) young sailor,
Full of fire and full of play,
To his mind he did uncover to a ("yift"?) a lady gay,
Four and twenty British sailors
Met him on the King's Highway
As he went for to be married,
Pressed he was and sent away.

Faddle-deedle-dum, a do-rye diddle o,
Faddle-deedle-dum, come a do rye day.

A sailor's clothing she put on
And she went to a boat, on a man-of-war,
Fiddle-diddle fingers, long and slender
Soon were smeared with pitch and tar.
On that ship there was a battle,
She amongst the rest did fight,
The wind blew off her shiny buttons,
Breasts were bared that were snowy white.
(chorus)
When the Captain did discover,
He said, "Fair maid, what brings you here?"
"Sir, I'm seeking William Taylor,
"Pressed he was by you last year..."
"If you rise up in the morning
Early at the break of day,
There you'll spy young William Taylor
Walkin' with his lady gay."
(chorus)
She rose early in the morning,
Early at the break of day.
There she spied young William Taylor
Walking with his lady gay,
She produced a pair of pistols
On the ground where she did stand,
There she shot both William Taylor,
And the lady at his right hand.