Just checked in an old gilt-edged book (no copyright date) we picked up back East, the title page of which reads:

The Chandos Poets
The
Legendary Ballads
of
England and Scotland
compiled and edited by
John S. Roberts
(Editor of the Crown Editions of Burns' Works)
with original illustrations and steel portrait.
London
Frederick Warne and Co.
Bedford Street, Covent Garden.
New York, Scribner, Welford and Co.

The author says, "I have collected Ramsay's version of this ballad with that in The Reliques. Professor Aytoun speaks of Percy's version as being inferior to Ramsay's. I must join issue with him here. Besides, he has not printed Ramsay's text faithfully: he makes the dead-bell toll instead of jow, a much less effective word under the circumstances."

As for the original question of this thread, I find no mention of other women in this version. In the particular verse, it seems he bought drinks for everyone but Barbara Allen:

"Remeber ye not in the tavern, sir,
Whan ye the cups were filan,
How ye made the healths gae round and round,
And slighted Barbara Allen?"

Ths thread has been fun and wonderful! Thanks!

katlaughing