Thank you very much. Quoting the sources: the Fellside CD (Classic A. L. Lloyd) does not contain an indication of the source. Lloyd referes the ballad to The Grey Cock, but doesn't say where he got this version from. But I rememember having read somewhere he said he got it from an Irish source, as you write. As for "me" and "my", I've told you why I prefer to write it as the singer sings it, although I understand your point. Besides, the singers who sing "me" instead of "my" don't always do that through a whole song: sometimes they say "me" and sometimes they say "my". So, what they actually sing becomes more interesting to me, and I prefer to record it, to hear in my mind, while I read, the song as it was sung. Best wishes. R