I thought Gallows Pole was a version of Macpherson's Farewell?
The formulaic verses describing the arrival of successive empty-handed friends and family mark it down as Child 95. The sex of the protagonist can be fluid in ballads (see The Unfortunate Rake) and even the complete reversal of an ending is not unknown.
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