Joe, thanks for that and I'm sorry that you had to endure all the Google sites.*g* I was surprised as well not to find any mention on the Traditional Ballad Index. Emerson Woodcock sings this wonderfully and ends it by speaking the last line, rather than repeating it. He was born in 1899 in Kinmount, Ontario of mixed Scottish and Irish ancestry, and worked in the lumberwoods and then in the lumber mills for a while before taking up a job with GEC until he retired in 1964. Goodness knows where the song comes from.

Now I have to try to get hold of that book!