Surely one of my favorites!! Heard back in '71 from Cyril Tawney at the Bridge Inn in Newcastle. Probably from the Copper family originally, but this is a slightly different version from the one in their recently published family songbook:

As I was a-walking down by the seashore
Where the wind and the waves and the waters do roar
There I heard a sad voice make a pitiful sound
Of the wind and the waves and the waters all 'round

Cho:
Crying: oh my love's gone, he's the youth I adore
He's gone and I never shall see him no more

She'd a voice like a nightingale, her skin like a dove
And the song that she sang it was all about love
I asked her to marry me, marry me please
but the answer she gave:my love's drowned in the sea

I told her I'd gold and I'd silver besides
And a coach and 6 horses and with me she'd ride
No I never will marry, nor be any man's wife
I'll be true to my love as long as I've life

Then she stretched forth her arms and made a great leap
From the rocks that were high to the water so deep
Saying the shells of the oysters shall make me a bed
And the shrimps in the ocean wriggle over my head

Now every night at 8 bells they appear
When the moon it is shining and the waters are clear
These 2 constant lovers with all their young charms
Rollin' over and over and locked in love's arms