Well, after all that,I"m still confused !! I have two tunes that I know well----One is the "Tramps & Hawkers/ Paddy West " that I have heard various artists do over the years, & the other one is for "The Lakes of Ponchartrain" and excuse me, but they are quite different !!
Yes ,I grant you that the words to the songs are probably interchangeable, but that doesn"t alter the fact that it AINT the same tune !!