The Traditional Ballad Index entry contains errors and omissions. I really do think that it would be better to provide links to entries there, rather than copy-and-pasting them here; that way, revisions and corrections will be automatically available and we won't be perpetuating old mistakes, of which there are more than there ought to be. The "earliest date" is mis-typed, and should be 1831, not 1931. Unusually for the TBI, the date given (or, rather, intended) appears to be the date given by the collector rather than the date of publication (1977 in this case) of the book they saw it in.

First actual publication seems to have been The Illustrated Book of Scottish Songs (London, nd but c.1851; the second edition was 1854). Christie (Traditional Ballad Airs, 1876, I, 190-1) prints the same text, set to a tune of unspecified provenance.

It also appears, as mentioned earlier, in Greig-Duncan (III, 370) and in MacColl-Seeger. Neither the tune posted by John, not that linked to by Q, appears to be the one that MacColl and Seeger got from Maria Robertson.