There's a version of this strange song in the DT (I know, 'cos I put it there!). It is essentially one collected by AP Graves and published in the Journal of the Irish Folk Song Society in 1913, with two verses added recently.

While searching for something quite different on the Bodleian ballad website, I came across THIS , which I'd neither seen nor heard of before. Has anyone come across other versions - or seen reference to this one?

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