Just a footnote to the version recorded by Planxty:

"I collected it in a book which had no music but I was lucky to collect a tune from a Nic Jones album discovered on a field trip through Liam O'Flynn's flat."
Christy Moore (The Woman I loved So Well, 1980)

"Musgrave's tune is more a creation of my own than anything else, although the bulk of it is based on an American variant of the same ballad, entitled Little Matty Groves."
Nic Jones. (Ballads & Songs, 1970)

Malcolm