Hope you can hold on to your patience! We Mudcatters love a puzzle to solve, but some of us need more info to go on. Me, I tried a quick-and-dirty Google search and when something surfaced in search results, I guessed that it must be where you got this information in the first place. Murray, could you please confirm -- or deny -- that you are referring to this source? Songs of Roving and Raking John Walsh, 'contributor' [the term used by Google Books] Direct quote: "The tune, incidentally, is also known in Holland as 'Louisa' a children's song." [no page number] Now, about that tune name. If it is Dutch, we have a pedantic question here. "Luise" would be the German spelling; "Louise," the French spelling; and according to one Dutch/Nederlandse - language web page for names for babies, "Louisa" is the spelling that is more common to the Flemish/Walloons/Belgians than it is to the Netherlands. Take your pick ...
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