Maeve - as far as I know he never recorded it, though I heard him sing it many times (I noted it because, like you, I also sing it). He sang pretty much the standard version and tune, but used to drop the final verses viz: (Rosie found an officer. He promised her a ring. But regiments keep moving on and he left her in the spring. "To Bedlam I shall go" she cried, "In Bedlam I shall lie. In Bedlam I shall pass my life, and in Bedlam I shall die. If 'twere to do that's done," she said, "if 'twere to do that's done, I would adore Hay Marshall's face, Lord Elgin's I would shun. So all you young maids listen here, and hearken unto me. Never leave your wedded lord for another that you see.")
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