This is by no means the only song of O'Keeffe's that has turned up in a traditional version. Also from 'The Farmer' is "Ere around the Huge Oak", p. 83, in A. Williams, 'Folksongs of the Upper Thames'. "Old Towler, FSUT p. 61, is from 'The Czar Peter'. O'Keefe also (first) used many tunes that were later collected with folksongs e.g., "Madam Casey" ("The British lion is my sign"), for which see S.P. Bayard's 'Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife', #555 (Bayard didn't know source of tune was O'Keefe's song.) 'Poor Soldier' gave 1st known printing of many old Irish tunes which O'Keefe knew. When Samuel Arnold was his composer/arraigner we are in better shape, because Arnold always identified popular tunes by title. Tune for folksong "The Keeper" is "All amongst the leaves so green, O" in O'Keefe/Arnold's 'Castle of Andalusia', 1782, there, for O'Keefe's song "In the Forest here hard by".

[The Ploughman, The Ploughman's Whistle, and The Plough Boy, like The Country Wedding, The Irish Wedding, The Wedding Song, The Honeymoon, The Rose, and several others are generic titles, which unfortunately do not come to us with identification numbers so we can keep them straight.]