Interestingly the lyrics printed from BD's agent and the Makem website have an extra 2nd verse from those printed in the Folk Songs of Britain LP Booklet accompanying Sarah Makem's recording.

Now I know that that series left out a number of verses on the recordings to cram as much into the LP format as possible, but they usually printed the complete lyrics marking the missing verses, but do not have that 2nd verse.

I don't have a recording of Sarah Makem singing it in full to see if that is her 2nd verse (missing from both my recording and the booklet), somebody out there may have a fuller recording.

My "guess" is that, as the above web site is Tommy Makem's, he may have adapted the words himself and added that verse, but I'll keep an open mind until I hear a "full" SM version.

I enjoy these threads as they make you revisist old vinyl etc.