The Celtic Music Interpretive Center formerly sold a book titled "Songs Composed by Stanley Collins" but I can't find any information about it online. Perhaps if you could locate a copy of that book you could find more information about the song, if it's in there, but I can't even find a table of contents. ((If it helps, it's Catalog # 2007.78.01C))

The song also appears in:
- The Maine Woods Songster by Phillips Barry
- Songs of Miramichi by Louise Manny and James Reginald Wilson
- Drive dull care away : folksongs from Prince Edward Island by Edward D Ives
- Folksongs from Prince Edward Island by Randall & Dorothy Dibblee
- Twenty-one folksongs from Prince Edward Island by Northeast Folklore Society
One or more of those books hopefully will provide some history and context about the song, however,

I have also been unable to find recordings online of the song, so if you can point to any, feel free to share

I'll write out the pertinent info I can find in separate posts.