For lyric vaiants and the song's history, see Iona & Peter Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, new edition (Oxford, 1997, no. 524, s.v. Welshmen). The words "Upon St. David's Day" was used as the title of a dance tune entered in John Playford's Dancing Master (1714). Commentary on the latter and the music can be found in Claude M. Simpson, The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music (Rutgers UP, 1966, pp. 731-2). According to Florence E. Brunnings' Folk Song Index (Garland, 1981), there were other titles related to this song, which are under the index "Cape Ann": The Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman; It's Hunting We Will Go; Lookie There!; Looky There Now; The Three Hunters; The Three Huntsmen; Three Jolly Hunters; Three Jolly Huntsmen; Three Jovial Huntsmen; Three Jovial Welshmen; Three Little Hunters; Three Men of Gotham; Three Men They Went A-Hunting; Three Men Went A-Hunting; 'Twas of Three Jolly Welshmen; The Two Noble Kinsmen; We Hunted and We Halloed; We Hunted and We Hallowed; We Went Alog a Bit Further; We Whooped and We Hollered.