Peter Bellamy said he got this song from the singing of Harry Cox of Catfield, Norfolk, who claimed that it had been sung in his family for over 200 years. Certainly, it is a very old broadside as it predates the loss of the American colonies, after which Britain was forced to transport people to Australia. It has however been colllected elsewhere in southern England as well as in East Anglia.

I don't have the lyrics in my database but could transcribe them if no-one else beats me to it.