Shula - I got the lyrics to Linda by e-mail since they had already been posted. She's looking for history and background of the song, I think. I haven't been able to find that, but I did find a long list of recordings of "Butcher Boy." Linda, check at this URL:
http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/folkindex/ I don't know which of these recordings are still available, but I do know that you can still get any album ever issued on the Folkways label from Smithsonian Folkways - and now you can get it in CD format for twenty bucks a crack.
-Joe Offer-