For a number of versions of this ballad (The Farmer's Curst Wife) look in Bertrand Bronson's The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads. Your larger libraries or any good university library ought to have the four volume set. If not, try to get it through inter-library loan. The Child number is 278 (to see other versions in the DT just put #278 in the box up there), so the volume you want is the fourth, probably, since there are 305 ballads in the Child canon. Child, by the way, was a scholar at Harvard in the latter part of the 19th century, and his collection has provided a guide to ballad research ever since it was first published.
The point is, what you have here IS the same song that Joe pointed you toward, just a different version. There are hundreds of 'em reported from all over the English speaking world.
Sandy
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