Andy Irvine adapted the song from the version in Sam Henry's 'Songs of the People' collection. He got it from the original columns in the Coleraine (Northern Ireland) newspaper, The Northern Constitution. The columns have since been edited in a book by Gale Huntington and Lani Herrmann - this is still available (print on demand) from University of Georgia Press. The Rambling Suiler was also published in short versions in at least two Dublin printed 8-page song books in the early nineteenth-century.
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