The version I heard started Willie Taylor and his youthful lover full of mirth and loyalty they went to the church to be married he was pressed and sent to sea Then there's a chorus/refrain that goes "dally diddly dum, diddly dum dum dum dum, ..." etc. At the end the captain offers her a job (as noted back in '98 by Bill D), i.e. "He made her a ship's commander, over a vessel in the Isle of Man".
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