Hmmm. The only mention of the song that I could find was at folktrax.org, and I can't really understand the listing:

BRAKE OF BRIARS, THE - or BRAMBLE BRIAR, THE - "In Bruton Town (BT) there lives a farmer" "A famous farmer as you shall hear" - Servant man courts their sister so brothers go out and kill him - her lover appears murdered to her in a dream - accuses brothers and they flee - LAWS #M-32 ABBB 1957 pp196-7 - ROUD#18 - SHARP- MARSON FSS 1 pp24-25 & pp62-3 Mrs Overd, Langport, Somerset 1904 (notes on song) "BT" - SHARP Sel Ed 1921 1 pp4-5 (text heavily edited) - SHARP-KARPELES CSC 1974 #61 pp280-282 Mrs Overd/ George Whitcombe, Westbury, Somerset 1907 (m/o) "BT" - GILLINGTON SOR pp10-11 (gypsies) Hampsh "The Brake of Briars" - JFSS 2:6 1905 pp42-3 Sharp: Mrs Overd - JFSS 5:19 1915 pp123-7 Sharp: George Whitcombe, Meare, Somerset 1906-7 (notes) "In Strawberry Town"/ Lucy Broadwood: Mrs Joiner, Chiswell Green, Hertfordshire 1914 "Lord Burling's Sister" (full text) - PENGUIN BEFS 1959 pp24-25 Lucy Broadwood: Mrs Joiner, Chiswell Green, Hertfordsh 1914 - REEVES EC 1960 pp105-6 Gardiner: George Digweed, Micheldever, Hampsh 1906 "A Famous Farmer" - PURSLOW WS 1968 p79 Gardiner: George Digweed (w) & Mrs Randall (m), Preston Candover, Hampsh 1906 "The Murdered Servant Man" - ED&S 37:1 1975 p20 Sibella Bonham- Carter: Henry Mitchell, Buriton, Hampsh 1938 "The Cruel Brothers" - McCOLL-SEEGER 1977 p106 Carolyne Hughes & Nelson Ridley (gypsies) "The Brake of Briars" - PALMER EBECS 1979 RVW: nn, Poolend, Hertfordsh 1913 "It's of a farmer" - RICHARDS-STUBBS EFS 1979 p94 "Strawberry Town" from Sharp Ms - STEWART 1977 p48-9 - HENRY SOP #806 - Cf BOCACCIO & Keats "Isabella & the pot of basil" - BRISK YOUNG COUNTRY LADY - another version of story see CONSTANT FARMER'S SON --- SHARP EFSSA 1917/32 #48 (vol 1 pp310-311) 4var: Mrs Stella Shelton, Alleghany NC 1916/ Mrs Gosnell, Allenstand, NC 1916 (1v w/m)/ Mrs Rosie Hensley, Carmen, NC 1916/ Mrs Jane Gentry, Hot Springs NC 1916 (1v w/m)/ Mrs Eliza Pace, Hyden Co, Ky 1917/ Mrs Mollie Broughton, Barbourville, Knox Co, Ky 1917 (1v w/m)/ Hillard Smith, Hindman, Knott Co, Ky 1917 (1v w/m)/ Mrs Laurel Wheeler, Buena Vista, Va 1918 (1v w/m)/ Mrs Sina Boone, Shoal Creek, Burnsville, NC 1918 (1v w/m) "In Seaport Town" - COX FSS 1921 #88 p305 (2var) - HENRY 1938 p161 Mrs Samuel Harmon Tenn 1930 - EDDY Ohio 1939 p85 - GARDNER-CHICKERING 1939 p59 Lamberton Ms Michigan (w/o) "The Apprentice Boy" - BELDEN Mo 1940 p 109/ Modern Language Assoc 33:327 - BREWSTER BSI 1940 pp193-195 Mrs A J Hopkins/ Tollie Toole, Ind 1935 - RANDOLPH OFS 1946 1 pp380-2 Doney Hammontree, Ark 1941 "The Jealous Brothers" - BROWN NC 1952-62 p62 2 & 4 - HUBBARD BSFU 1961 pp49-50 Mrs Elizabeth Jensen Utah 1947 "The Branbury Briars" (Near Portsman Town") - MOORE BFSW 1964 Mrs Opal Walker Okl -- - A L "Bert" LLOYD rec by AL & PK, London 22/4/51: 056/ 7" RTR-0058: 056/ RIVERSIDE RLP 12-629 1956 (Famly version) "The Bramble Briar" - Carolyne & John HUGHES (gypsies) rec by PK, Blandford, Dorset 1968: 043 & Carolyne solo talk before 143 "Brake of Briars" - Tim HART & Maddy PRIOR (dulc): B & C CREST-23 1968/76/ CASS 45-0853 - STEELEYE SPAN: BOULEVARD BD-3004 1979 - Sandy DENNY: ISLAND HNBX-5301 1985 "BT" - Sally Ann HUMPHRIES in Martin Carthy's Song Workshop on Radio 2 rec 12/6/91 CASS-1019