In the late 1940's or early 1950's I learned the version posted above by Campfire (as well as all the songs listed by Guest, Diane B.)
I have Campfire's version in several different song books published by the Cooperative Recreation Service in Delaware, Ohio. The name given is "Walking at Night." There is a note "Translated and arranged by A.D.Zanzig. From SINGING AMERICA by permission."
   When I was little my family went to Circle Pine Center in Kalmazoo, Michigan where we used a little songbook called "SING IT AGAIN" from the Cooperative Recreation Service (CRS). "Walking at Night" was one of the songs we sang. When my family moved to the East we continued to use the song book until it wore out; then we ordered another copy. I still have our bedraggled second copy and the third one. This song book was distributed by the Methodist Church, "single copies 30 cents."
   Once in a while I came across other books from Cooperative Recreation Service, and in 1960 my mother bought me a wonderful gift package of about ten of the little books that CRS was publishing that year. One of them is called HAPPY MEETING: FOLK SONGS FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Other songs from that book that we also sang were "Came a Riding," "Morning Comes Early," "Over the Meadows," and "Above a Plain." Two of these are in "SING IT AGAIN." I wonder where we learned the others, maybe in the Girl Scouts as someone mentioned above.
    Incidentally, in 1971, the first time I went to the Country Dance & Song Society's Folk Music Week at Pinewoods Camp, they had a song book from CRS, "SONGS OF ALL TIME" a collection of Southern Appalachian songs sponsored by the Council of the Southern Mountains.
    I hope to learn more about the Cooperative Recreation Service, but have not had time to pursue it.
Booklynrose

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See also: Cooperative Recreation Service - World Around Songs