The version that Paul wants may be similar to that recorded by Crowdy Crawn in 1974:

SOLDIER AND THE MAIDEN
(Traditional)

One morning, one morning, one morning in May
I spied a young couple they were making their way
One was a maiden so bright and so fair
And the other was a soldier and a brave volunteer

Good morning, good morning, good morning , said he
And where are you going my pretty lady?
I'm going out a-walking on the banks of the sea
Just to see the waters glide and hear the nightingales sing

Now they had not been standing but a minute or so
When out of his knapsack a fiddle he drew
And the tune that he played made the valleys to ring
Oh hark, cried the maiden, hear the nightingales sing

Oh maiden, fair maiden, 'tis time to give o'er
Oh no, kind soldier, please play one tune more
For I'd rather hear your fiddle with the touch of one string
Than to see the waters glide and hear the nightingales sing

Oh soldier, kind soldier, will you marry me?
Oh no, pretty maiden, that never shall be
I've a wife down in London and children twice three
Two wives and the army's too many for me

Well I'll go back to London and I'll stay there for a year
It's often that I'll think of you my little dear
And if ever I return it'll be in the spring
To see the waters glide and hear the nightingales sing

Source: Crowdy Crawn: Brenda Wooten and Robert Bartlett 'No Song To Sing?' Sentinel LP SENS 1021 (1974).
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