Charlotte Dann ( nee Few) of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire from whom the song was collected had some fragmentary verses, in addition to some of the more familiar ones from Child.
She sang the first two fragments to the second half of the tune.The last two lines were repeated.

O what did he do, You very soon shall hear
He shed poor Lucy's blood.

O was that the blood of your grey hound
Or the blood of your Lucy?

O what shall you do with your houses and your lands
My son pray tell unto me
I shall leave them all to my children so small,
By one by two by three.
I shall leave them all to my children so small,
By one by two by three.

O when will shall you turn to your own wife again
My son pray tell unto me
When the sun and the moon rises over yonder hill
I hope that will never never be.
When the sun and the moon rises over yonder hill
I hope that will never never be.


O what will you do when your father comes to know
My son pray tell unto me
I will dress myself in a new suit of blue
And gang to the far country.
I will dress myself in a new suit of blue
And gang to the far country.


Ella Bull wrote down the song from memory of Charlotte singing it some years previously and subsequently seems to have checked with her to see if she had any more of the song. Unfortunately she had no more than Ella had first recalled. Ella sent the song to W.Percy Merrick in approximately 1904 and thence it was published in the Journal of the Folk Song Society.
Ella said in a letter to Lucy Broadwood that Charlotte learned most of her songs from her mother, Hannah Few from Over (a village on the edge of the Fens) but she could not recall where she learnt Lucy. Ella's view was that in Cromwell's time some Scots prisoners were quartered in North Cambridgeshire and the song may have come from there.The use of the word "gang" in the last verse is suggestive of this hypothesis. I have never heard Cambridgeshire people say "gang" for "go".