Gwilym, There are plenty of early broadside versions, but I don't off-hand remember this ending. Are you sure the previous stanzas are from a version of the well-known song? Just checked a late Hodges printing which has an additional last stanza. One evening as I sat weeping, down by the cottage door A soldier came up to me and said that he was poor, One shilling I gave to him, with that he did me kiss, Saying he was the young man whom I so long had missed. Nothing like your ending though. However broadside printings do vary enormously from the regular oral versions as the ballad must have been rewritten many times.
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