Number 4786 in the Roud Folk Song Index: at present all references there are to unpublished sound recordings in the Fowke collection. Evidently the words were printed several times in the 'Old Favourites' column of the Montreal Family Herald and Weekly Star during the 1940s.

A text (as recorded by 'The Munroe Family', assuming they aren't fictional) can be seen in Bob Leroux's novel Murder in the Glen, parts of which are available via Google Books: Murder in the Glen: page 150