Not until quite recently; the song seems to have been long forgotten until Alex Glasgow revived it. He wrote a new tune for it because, presumably, he didn't know what the original one was. Nowadays we do know; see the other threads on the same subject (links at the top of this page) where better information is to be found than in this old, forgotten discussion.

Wilson is not 'said to have written it'; there is no doubt whatsoever of that. Twenty years ago, of course, quite a lot of people were singing the song (including, once in a while, me; and not in the NE); but to Glasgow's tune, not the one its author intended. We had all learned it off records or from each other, so we didn't all know who the author was. Any 'oral tradition' involved is recent, and postdates Glasgow's involvement.