I have this in a song book by Kathy Henderson with Frankie Armstrong and Sandra Kerr entitled 'My Song is my own - 100 women's songs'. Published by Pluto Press.

I have the lyrics too, if you need them. In the book, which is one of the best referenced I have come across it says....

"There is a broadside equivalent called the Scolding Wife's Vindication 'wherin she shows what just reasons she had to excercise severity over her insufficient husband...for he nothing at all would do'. The text of My Husband's Got No courage In Him is a collation of two verses collected by Cecil Sharpe, which appeared in James Reeves, The Idiom of the People"

I think that makes it English.

Hope that's of some help.

Catrin