Hi Mac, it may be a few years on, but here's the version I know of The Ale Wife as collected by Ewan MacColl. I'll be reliant upon an old friend, Jim Murray, to supply the remaining verses and the remarkable story of how MacColl stumbled across it.

For any serious musos the following ABC notation is slightly awry in the lack of anacrusis, (and the fact that the dominant note is not the first note in the bar) but quite frankly I got sick of the errors caused by auto conversion from MIDI to ABC. It'll sound OK if you copy and paste it HERE. And good musos should be used to some unconventional display of folk music.

I'll follow up with the remaining lyrics in a few days.

Regards, John

X:1
T:The Ale Wife
M:3/4
L:1/8
Q:1/4=90
K:F
A,CD2D2-|DCA,A,A,2-|A,G,C2C2-|CEG2G2-|
w:Oh the ALE WIFE,_ the drunk-en wife,_ the ale wife_ she deeves me
GADDD2-|DCA,2A,2-|A,GAAG2-|GEDCD2||
w: my wif-ey wi'_ her bar-ley_ she'll ru-in and_ dec-cei-ve me.