While browsing on the Bodleian Library site, I found this more complete version of ALL AROUND MY HAT. I've taken the cockney bits out (which make it seem like a parody) and am impressed by the song that's left.

ALL AROUND MY HAT (from Bodleian)

CHORUS: All around my hat, I will wear the green willow,
All around my hat, for a twelvemonth and a day;
And if anyone should ask it the reason why I wears it,
Tell them that my true love is far, far away.

'Twas going on my rounds in the streets I did first meet her.
I thought she was an angel just come down from the sky.
I never heard a voice more louder and more sweeter,
When she cried, "Buy my primroses, my primroses come and buy."

My love she was fair and my love she was kind, too,
And cruel was the judge that had my love to try,
For thieving was a thing that she never was inclined to,
But he sent my love across the seas so far, far away.

For seven long years, my love and I are parted.
For seven long years, my love is bound to stay.
Bad luck to the chap that would ever be false hearted!
I'll love my love for ever though she's far, far away.

There are some young men so preciously deceitful,
A-coaxing of the young girls they wish to lead astray.
As soon as they deceive them, so cruelly they leave them,
And they never sigh or sorrow when they're far, far away.

I bought my love a ring on the very day she started,
Which I gave her as a token all to remember me;
And when she does come back, we'll never more be parted,
But marry and be happy, for ever and a day.

Printers: Keys, E. (Devonport); Stone, R. (Exeter)
Date: [s.a.]
Imprint: Printed and sold ... by E. Keys, 7, James-street, Devonport. Sold also by R. Stone, 10, on the New Bridge, Exeter
Illus. Ballads on sheet: 2
Copies: Firth b.27(536)
Ballads: 1. All around my hat I wear a green willow ("All round my hat I vear a green villow ...")
To the tune of: The fisherman's boy
Subject: Street traders
Note: Verse and prose

ALL AROUND MY HAT