Following up on Q's note, here's the Wolf Collection version. No tune given; not easy to fit this scansion to the Puckett-McMichen "standard" tune. Got a feeling this, like "Pretty Little Widow" and some others, is a song that originally had a good many more verses, but has lost all but a few.

Chances are the Wolf tune must have varied quite a bit:

Well, I sent my son John out one day
For to hunt the old gray mare-o,
And he was gone, and he was gone-o.
Well, I got uneasy about my son John-o,
And where do you reckon I found my son John?
A-sitting way down yonder on an old holler log,
A-picking on an old . . . banjo,
And the tune went:

Sody, sody, Paddy, won't you drink some,
Paddy, won't you drink some,
Paddy, won't you drink some
Good old cider.
Go to Bailey Watts's
And get some cider.