The tune in Colm O Lochlainn's "Irish Street Ballads", 1939, p. 188, is what I call the Antrim tune, and if it's a relative of the common "Road to Dundee" tune, it's a bit far-flung. But that latter tune is a NEW tune to the song, since it was applied to it around the turn of the century maybe. Previously RtoD was sung to the same melody as "The Lass of Glenshee" etc., a sort of haunting minor tune (whereas the modern air is in a major). [That original tune is in e.g. Ord's Bothy Ballads, 1930.] [The unique American recording is in Edith Fowke, Trad. Singers & Songs from Ontario, 1965; and the singer uses the old tune--the "Lass of Glenshee" itself being common in Ontario.] When you compare the Antrim tune with the old one, there is a closer resemblance; but I really think they're separate. I have heard yet another tune [from Co. Tyrone] sung to a version of the Irish words.

Incidentally, the Bracken text should have "brawling" in the first line, not "dawning", which is an anticipation of the third line. Cheers Murray