Hmm! Interesting. Thanks, again. Makes me grateful once more to the magic of the 'net and the helpful people on it.

Now, I've not heard Frank Harte's rendition, but Ian Robb and Margaret Christl, who should know better, don't quite have the same notes as in that transcription from the Penguin book. (And then, I always wonder how a book transcription compares to the original.) The midi in the DT is also slightly different from either of them. Can anyone tell, is that from Frank Harte's version?

Here's an interesting comment from another thread on the song (Chord Req: Paddy's Lamentation)

From: lamarca
Date: 31 Oct 02 - 11:42 AM

The song (and tune) were collected from O. J. Abbott in the Ottawa Valley by Edith Foulk [sic]. The tune he used has some really neat twists and intervals that Irish revival musicians have sort of smoothed out. One of the better renditions that's close to Mr. Abbott's is by Frank Harte, a capella. Ian Robb and Margaret Christl perform it on their Folk Legacy album, but make the tempo entirely too bouncy for my taste.

She may be making assumptions about provenance, though.

All in all, we've lots more and better information assembled than we started with!

~ Becky in Tucson