I wrote a (not very good) article about the ballad and its variant forms in Come All Ye: Journal of the Vancouver Folk Song Society Vol VI, No. 1 Jan 1977. I reprinted the Pitts broadside, the Logan set and the Christie set and noted it also turns up in Ashton, Modern Street Ballads, Baring-Gould (Cornwall), Hubbard (FS & B of Utah), Gardiner, Hammond (Dorset), Brown (N Carolina), a broadside from Oxlade of Portsea (1797), Logan, Pedlar's Pack, repr in Firth, Naval Songs. Murray Shoolbraid did a short tune note.