"My Love He Is a Sailor Boy" was popular during the Civil War, and several follow-up were composed, including "My Love he Is a Zou-Zu," referring to the Zouves. Could not find any sheet music, and only this version (I don't know if it has a relationship to current versions):

Lyr. Add: MY LOVE HE IS A SAILEUR BOY

Oh my love he is a saileur, so gallient and bold,
He's as straight as a flag-staff and just nineteen years old,
For to cruise the wide world he has left his own dear,
And my heart it is a bustin because he is not here.

Oh my buzzum it is tosted just like the rollin' sea,
For fear that his affecshins don't still pint to me;
For a sweet-heart can be found in each port I am told,
Eckspecially for a young man on'y nineteen years old.

Oh, I would not a tin-smith revile or despise,
Providing no other hadn't first met my eyes;
But fifty-five years tho' bedizend with gold
Ain't equal to a saileur boy on'y nineteen years old.

Encore verses

In vain does his rival my true heart to assail,
And beg me my lovier no more to bewail;
Oh it ain't to grey 'airs my young 'air I'll unfold
While there's 'opes of my saileur boy on'y nineteen years old.

Oh my friends they have besot me by night and day,
But I tells them no viddiver with me can make way;
For first love is warm, while the second is cold,
Si I sticks to my saileur boy, on'y nineteen years old.

And if my dear husband he never shall be,
But lays a stiff corpus in the bottom of the sea;
The weeds of a vidder so dismal to behold,
I'll wear for my saileur boy on'y nineteen years old.

Printed by Thomas G. Doyle, Baltimore (no date, but 1860s). Spellings not changed.

There are several versions of the "Battle of Alma" in the Bodleian Collection, but none has the line "My love he is a sailor boy." Nor does the modern version by Copper and Dudley, or the older one by McGonigal. It is possible that "My Love Is a Saileur Boy" is based on an older poem.

Guest, where did you find the version by Glyde?