Thank you for getting back to me! This helps a lot, I had no idea what the singer was even saying so googling the lyrics was kind of impossible for me.

I wonder how old the song is, I wonder if it goes back further than the 19th century.

I like the French women's version a lot, the version I found on the internet was from Custer Larue, it was a much slower acapella version from her 1999 album Ballads. Very pretty too.