As a Lancashire lass this song has always been appropiate in the once strong mining area of Lancashire UK, where I live and sing and I have always known and sung the last verse as:

For four long years I've followed him Now I must live without him For there's nothing left that I can do but weep and think about him So break my heart and then it's o'er So break my heart my dearie And I'll lie in the cold clay ground For of single life I'm weary