Jeannie Robertson's recording in the anthology Classic Ballads of Britain and Ireland, volume 2, now reissued by Rounder,recorded in 1953, begins with three stanzas that Jeannie recites, and then she starts singing, from "Yestreen there was four Marys". Jean Redpath also recites the ballad (on Lowlands. Kytrad, I thank you very much for your help. Roberto