My Dad, Balis W. Ritchie, born in Knott Co., KY, had a variant of this song. Starts thus:,

O Soldier, soldier, will you marry me
With your musket, fife and drum?
O how could I marry such a pretty girl as you
When I have no hat to put on?
Then away she ran to the hatmaker shop
As fast as she could run,
And she bought him a hat of the very best kind
And the soldier put it on

Has a nice swinging tune...you can almost hear the kettledrums rattling underneath it.