Hanly's source for the song was Colm O Lochlainn's 'More Irish Street Ballads' - #75 at page 148. The second line of every verse in the original was 'All alone in the lo li lo lin'. According to the O Lochlainn text, 'mournfully faced' is correct. The line after 'red shoes in the heel of her hand' is 'Oh it was in the morning early'. Hanly noted that he had 'doctored it a lot'. The seccond lines of the original were replaced and the tune altered.

O Lochlainn's note is: 'Air and words kindly sent to me by Brother Seamus Shiel S.D.B. of the Salesian College, Baile na Coille, Laois. It seems rather like an English country song but I have failed to find it in print'.

--Stewie.