I've been singing that one for nearly twenty years, Tim! A fine tune indeed - the text has lost much sense of dialogue, but it works for me.

As to the other variants, if we ignore for the moment the Scots 'Elfin Knight' strain and the English 'Sing Ivy' strain, and concentrate on the 'Cambric Shirt' versions, Bronson lists forty, with 14 from England, 23 from North America and 3 from Ireland. Off the top of my head I can think of a few others post-Bronson, from England (the MacColl one), Ireland and the USA. Bronson's list includes just five from Appalachian states (Kentucky and North Carolina), which is small compared to the numbers of some of the other Child Ballads collected in that region. There are eight from New England, and others dotted around in the mid-West, California (where the destination in verse 1 was 'Cadrian') and British Columbia, so this ballad was pretty widespread. Oh, and one version did include yodelling...

Interestingly, only one North American version follows Scots 'Elfin Knight' tradition in having a 'Blow, blow ye winds' refrain. The rest either have variations on 'Parsley, Sage' / 'Savoury Sage' / 'Every rose grows merry in time', or complete nonsense 'Flum-a-lum-a-link' / 'Hickalack tickalack' refrains. It's of course highly possible that the ballad travelled to North America independently from England, Ireland and Scotland.

The versions from England are concentrated in the South West (where Baring-Gould and Sharp were collecting) and in the North East, with five from North Yorkshire naming 'Scarborough', and one Northumbrian version naming 'Whittingham'. There is a different version from Goathland, collected by Kidson in 1891, which has a very good tune albeit not in the Dorian mode like Richard Hutton's. The version Kidson collected from William Moat in Whitby has a very good tune as well.

If you're looking for good variant tunes further afield, I could recommend 'The Tri-Coloured House' from Mary McDonagh, a traveller from co. Leitrim recorded in 1973, and 'The Cambric Shirt' from Sarah Cleveland of upstate New York (but of Irish descent), which is sung very well by her grand-daughter Colleen Cleveland to this day.