Hi, Steph!
It isn't exactly your song, but try this:

Gay Spanish Maid

A gay Spanish maid at the age of sixteen
Over hills and through valleys she roamed
Where she sat down to rest near a green spreading oak
With her gay gallant youth by her side

"My ship sails tomorrow fair maiden," he said
"And with you I can't roam anymore
And will you tonight when your parents are asleep
Will you meet me tonight by the shore?"

"And when her old parents retired to rest
She slowly crept out the hall door
With her hat in her hand she ran down on the sand
And she met with her love by the shore

"My ship sails tomorrow fair maiden," he said
"And with you I can't roam anymore
l will leave you in God's care with your parents at home
While I am so far far away."

That night there came on a most terrible storm
And the wind through her rigging it did howl
Not a soul there to cheer her sad aching heart
And our ship she went down in the gale

The pale moon was rising far over the sea
And the skies a d the waters seemed to meet
Not a sound could be heard but the rippling of the waves
Where they rose and they broke at her feet

That night on the billows we were tossed to and fro
Every man his poor life tried to save
Where I swum to a place that got hidden from the wreck
I got saved from a watery grave

It's now I'll return to my own darling Nell
She's the flower of my bosom I adore
Where she died like a rose that got bitten by the frost
When she thought of her love in the gale


Sources: Mercer 124; Laws K16; Leach 16, 18, 66 cf. Fowke 1994: 156 ("The Young Indian Lass" which she claims has been performed as "The Spanish Lass" in Newfoundland sources);   Roud 708

Performed by Ernest Poole

Source: MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada (click for recording)

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Here's the entry from the Traditional Ballad Index:

Gay Spanish Maid, A [Laws K16]

DESCRIPTION: The girl bids her lover farewell as he prepares to sail. A storm sinks the ship soon after it starts on its way; the entire crew is killed except her lover, who clings to a plank. She hears that the ship is lost and dies before her lover reaches her
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Cox)
KEYWORDS: ship storm death separation love drowning
FOUND IN: US(Ap,MW,NE,So) Canada(Mar)
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Laws K16, "A Gay Spanish Maid"
Randolph 125, "Gay Spanish Mary" (1 text)
Gardner/Chickering 40, "A Spanish Maid" (1 text plus an excerpt, 2 tunes)
Combs/Wilgus 87, pp. 134-135, "The Spanish Maid" (1 text)
JHCox 115, "A Gay Spanish Maid" (1 text)
DT 560, GAYSPAN
Roud #708
File: LK16

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Folktrax.org lists more-or-less the same sources:

GAY SPANISH MAID, THE - "at the age of sixteen" - LAWS #K-16 ABBB 1957 p148 - ROUD#708 - COX FSOS 1925 p371 George Gregg, WVa 1917 (w/o) - McKENZIE BSSNS 1928 pp104-5 James Campbell (w/o) - CREIGHTON SBNS 1932 pp71-2 Mrs Grantmyre 1929+ - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp434-5 Mrs Nina May Blake Mo 1929 (w/o) "The GS Mary"

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The version in the Digital Tradition is from Creighton, Songs and Ballads From Nova Scotia, no.35