Palmer is pretty good usually, which is why I can't see why he did something so stupid as to give Thomas Lyle's rewritten version of the song in 'Everyman's Book of British Ballads', p. 192. [More on Lyle's version in my website file, notein the original first verse that Lyle gave.]

I'm bought, and am awaiting delivery, of 'Pretty Peggy and Other Ballads', 1880, where the American version first appeared, probably revised by Rossina Emmit from a broadside version and to a different tune (on my website). If anyone has a question that this is the original American version, just compare the tune of 1880 on my website with the first in Sharp and Karpeles' 'English Folksongs of the Southern Appalachians'.