Irish Singer Delia Murphy recorded a version she called "The Wake in Kildare" in 1950 and may have influenced a few versions. The sheet music can be purchased from musicnotes.com which claims "Words and Music Delia Murphy" for $5.95. She would have been fairly popular at that time.

Sean McCarthy from Kerry updated the song in the late sixties,when the use of contraceptives was causing heated debates in Ireland.
He recorded it under the title "Fagan's Wake".

FAGAN'S WAKE

Oh! daughter, dearest daughter there's a wake in Kildare
And the lodger, the lodger he's sure to be there
You know he's hansome and you know he's tall and straight,
Ah! but keep your legs together comimg home from the wake.

Oh! Mother, dearest mother what an awful thing to say,
Sure I'll keep away from Fagan until my wedding day
He can kiss me and caress me, he can love me for my sake,
But I'll keep my legs together coming home from the wake

When Mary reached the waking house, it was young and gay she felt,
Fagan sat her down by the fire and drank the dead man's health
Oh! gra mo chroi 'twas sad to see the poor man on the bed
A mean old craiter when alive, he's a fine man now he's dead.

And at 4 o clock next morning, walking down the boreen,
She kept admiring Fagan, the finest she'd ever seen
Temptation proved too much for her. she let him have his way,
As Fagan says the best of friends get parted every day.

Nine months have been and gone since Fagan rang the bell,
The anxious weeks have been like years for fear of any swell
Young and foolish though they were of them I won't speak ill
There was no cause to fret you see 'cause Mary takes the Pill.