Place no trust in the words of songs sung by the Black family. I am fond of their recordings, but they are full of mis-hearings. Always go to whoever they learned the song from for a reading that will make sense. They learned this one from, as they put it, "the Fisher family of Glasgow".

There are several sets of this song in the Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection, but that's volume 6 which I don't have. I'd guess that Archie Fisher got his set from the earlier selection from Greig, Folk-Song of the North-East.