That is not the version that I have heard and it seems to mention a lover rather than a father. Trying to pick fragments up from memory I can come up with a chorus that goes along the lines of:

Hang on the bell Nellie, hang on the bell
You poor father's locked in an old prison cell
She swings to the left and she swings to the right
Remember the curfew must never ring tonight.

Does that ring any bells with anyone?

Jon