Terry version

Oh, there was a' little drummer and he loved a one-eyed cook, An' he loved her; O he loved her though she had a cook-eyed look,
With her one eye in the pot, and the t'other up the chimney, With a bow, wow, wow, fallal the dowadidy, bow, wow, wow!
When this couple went a-courtin' for to walk along the shore, Sez the drummer to the cookie, "You're the gel that I adore." When this couple went a-courtin' for to walk along the pier, Sez the cookie to the drummer, "An' I love you too, my dear." Sez the drommer to the cookie, "Aint the weather fine to-day?" Sez the cookie to the drummer, "Is that all ye got to say?" Sez the drummer to the cookie, "Will I buy the weddin' ring?" Sez the cookie, "Now you're talkin'. That would be the very thing." Sez the drummer to the cookie, "Will ye name the weddin' day?" Sez the cookie, "We'll be married in the merry month o' May." When they went to church to say "I will", the drummer got a nark For her one eye gliffed the Parson, and the t'other killed the Clerk.

Source: Richard Runciman Terry, The Shanty Book

Terry called this “obviously a music-hall song taken over wholesale,” though he noted it was used as a working shanty aboard the Blyth brig Northumberland, where he learned it from Capt. John Runciman. Hugill disagreed with the music-hall label.

In Terry’s own words, from The Shanty Book, Part II (1926):

“This is obviously a music-hall song taken over wholesale. I learnt it from Capt. John Runciman, who in turn had it from the cook of the Blyth brig Northumberland, in which vessel it was used as a shanty. I remember nothing of this cook except that he was called ‘Alf, and that (as was sometimes the case in ships with small crews) he acted as shantyman in the ‘Northumberland’. As Capt. John Runciman (who used to sing the whole song) is dead, and as neither Sir Walter Runciman (who also knew it in his youth) nor myself can now remember more than the first verse, I have been guilty of writing the remaining ones which here appear.”