I have exactly the same lyrics as first posted above, copied from a book I found in Chester public library, England. That would have been about the time I was taking my lawyers qualifying exams, so 74 or 75. Alas I have no note of the name of the book. The book gives no credit, and it did where one was known to be required, so that may put the death of the author before 1924. Jeff and Penny Smith, Dartford folk club, Kent, England do or did a version which was (from distant memory) similar or the same.