Jim Dixon's alternatives for the gender of the singer are in the early sheet music (as alternatives!).
My copy is titled:
THE FLORAL DANCE
Words and Music (music founded on an old Cornish air)
By Katie Moss

Copyright MCMXI by Chappell&Co Ltd

The only slight dfferences to the words as quoted above by Bagpuss are: (and I state 'Paragraph' as this is easier than discerning verse/chorus!)
Para 2, line2: "of Summer seas" (no 'the')
Para 5, line 1; "Ev'ry boy" (Contraction of 'Every' to two syllables)

Only minor corrections, but this seems to be the earliest version quoted thus far

CHEERS
Nigel