Hi Jim,
I have that E/P " Dominic Takes the Floor" which has "A sailor courted a farmers daughter" on it. It also has "Love is Pleasing", "Zoological Gardens" and "The Blind man he could see "on it. I was told the "A sailor courted a farmers daughter" was written by Percy French and I have since got hold of "The World of Percy French" by Brenda O Dowda ,which seems to confirm this. However, Percy does not prolong the last line of each verse. The last line in verse two is simply:
"If I threw them into the Ocean Cold" rather than"If I had nothing in the world at all and wrapped all my possessions into a bundle and threw into the bottom of the deep blue ocean cold". Percy French has the girl living contagious to the Isle of Man but someone since moved her to Strabane. Words are published in the recent book "Ireland's Other Poetry- Anonymous to Zozimus ", by John Wyse Jackson and Hector McDonnell. Hector says he learned it from Tony McAuley, who worked for the BBC in Belfast. He lists the author as anon. So,was it Dominic or someone else built an extension on the last lines?
                                  Domo