Forgot to say, 'Love Will You Marry Me is closely related to the bawdy Scots;

Bonny lass come ower the burn,
I'm the ld who gi'e ye a turn,
Bonny lass com ower the burn
And what the devil ails ye.

Bonny lass come down the street,
I'm the lad who faithered your geet (fathered your child)
Bonny lass come down the street
And what the devil ails ye.

We owe much of our material and knowledge of these songs to the work done by Alan Lomax and Seamus Ennis in the Hebrides in the early 1950s.
Ennis was highly respected there, not only for his musicianship, but also for his ability to grasp Scots Gaelic.
Lomax wasn't so lucky.
He tells the story of the time he was recording a group of women on Harris waulking cloth (sitting round a table and streaching the urine soaked cloth in rhythm) while improvising a song to keep time.
They sang of the handsome American who had come among them; his fine head of hair, his aquiline nose, his fine mouth, his chin, his shoulders his waist....... and down, and down, and down.... as far as you care to imagine!
The song ended up too bawdy for the BBC to broadcast.
Jim Carroll