,,, and Young British Waterman and innumerable others. In a sense probably LITERALLY innumerable since the last four lines are in fact one of those floating verses that can be, and were, appended to any song in which a girl gets pregnant and dies. I.e. about 73% of all trad songs! What marks this 'version' out is the fact that it somehow got taken up by the army (certainly WW2, possibly WW1 as well). It got sung in Sod's Operas and suchlike, where they wanted something short and dirty. Young British Waterman or whatever not really being either they just did a couple of verses and spiced it up with a title like Whore's Lament.
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