So many slightly different versions, so closley alike.

"Down in the valley,
The valley so low,
Bend your head over,
Hear the wind blow;
Hear the wind blow, Love,
Hear the wind blow,
Bend your head over,
Hear the wind blow.

"If You don't love me
Love whom you please,
Throw your arms round me,
Give my heart ease.
Give my heart ease, Love,
Give my heart ease,
Throw your arms roun d me,
Give my heart ease.

" Write me a letter,
Send it by mail,
Back it in care of
Birmingham jail/
Birmingham jail, Love,
Birmingham jail,
Back it in care of Birmingham jail.

" Go build me a castle,
Forty feet high,
So I can see you
As you go by.
As you go by, Love---etc..."

I remember a rendition in a place called Wark, Northumberland, where a beginning verse talked of a young man--"you're going to jail, boy,
For twenty one years"---in the Black Bull pub as a matter of fact, a haunt in more recent years, of Kathy Tickell [sp?] the talented Northumbrian piper.