There are three versions in Keneth Peacock's Songs of the Newfoundland Outports. Here's the first:

SEVEN YEARS I LOVED A SAILOR (A)

1. A fair maid walking in a flowery garden
A handsome sailor she chanced to see.
He looked at her as if he knew her,
Saying, "Pretty girl, will you marry me?"

2. To marry you, sir, a man of honor,
A man of honor you seem to be,
To marry you, sir, a pretty maiden,
A young man's servant I'll never be."

3. "I don't want you for to be my servant,
I'll marry you, make you my bride,
And I'll have servants to wait upon you
While you and I in a carriage ride."

4. "I have a true lover of my own, sir,
And seven years he has crossed the sea,
And seven years I will wait upon him
Till he returns for to marry me."

5. "Pretty girl, don't you be so foolish
To wait so long for any young man,
He may be dead or he may be married,
Or he may be sick in some foreign land."

6. "If he's sick I will wish him better,
And if he's married I'll wish him joy,
And if he's dead I will wish him heaven,
What more can I wish for my sailor boy?"

7. When he found that she was so constant,
When he saw that she was so true,
He put his hand down into his pocket,
Pulled out a ring they had broke in two.

8. Saying, "Seven years I have loved a lady,
Seven years I have crossed the sea,
And seven more she will wait no longer,
I am returned for to marry thee."


Source: Peacock, Songs of the Newfoundland Outports