Sorry about the hyphens. I had to copy this at the last minute from the lyrics for the sheet music.

One thing that delights me about this song is its mixture of learned and unlearned language. There's a typo in the 3rd verse. Should be he'd, not he's.

I googled "waterfall, hairdo, images" and found pictures of modern hairstyles called waterfalls. I don't know if they are similar to those of 1865, but they are quite pretty. Rather romantic, with elegant braids above long, straight hair going down.