Whoops, sorry Becky, didn''t go through the back postings properly - thanks.
This is the note we did for the bovine version sung by Tom Lenihan of West Clare on 'Around The Hills of Clare'.

A four verse parody entitled The Pretty Girl Milking Her Goat taken down from Penn. miner, Daniel Walsh of centralia< Columbus Co. by Gorge Korson has first verse :
"It was a cold winter morning... etc.
The accompanying note reads: The Pretty Maid Milking Her Goat, for all its mocking text, is sung to one of the loveliest of all Irish melodies'. The only other Irish recording listed in the Roud Index is from Mrs Martha Gillen from Antrim, made by the BBC in 1954.
In his note to the song in Mount Callan Garland, collector Tom Munnelly points out that the singer had the following verse as the penultimate one, but refused to sing it in the presence of women for fear of giving offence. The singer has omitted it here.

An old maid is like an old almanac,
Quite useless when once out of date.
If her ware isn't sold in the morning
At noon it must fall to low rate.
Oh, the fragrance of May is all over
The rose leaves its beauty, you know.
All bloom is consumed in October,
Sweet cailín deas crúite na ,mbó.