This is one of the compositions published by Hugh McWilliams, Schoolmaster in his Poems and Songs on Various Subjects in Belfast in 1831.

John Moulden has republished some of the songs of this extraordinary folk poet in a little booklet for Ulstersongs in 1993. Of the thirty-two songs that McWilliams published in 1831, eight entered the repertoire of traditional singers and have been collected from such great singers as Robert Cinnamond and Eddie Butcher.

This substantiates John Moulden's bold claim that "Hugh McWilliams wrote traditional songs" especially when the songs include The Trip o'er the Mountain, A Man in Love, The Lass among the Heather