Here's the text & notes from Malcolm's links to rich-joy's posts of August 2002, from Roy Palmer (?)

BELL TUNE
from Stockenbrig, St Michael's-on-Wyre, Fylde, Lancashire …

I danced wi' a girl wi' a hole in her stockin'
An' her heel kep' a-rockin', An' her heel kep' a-rockin'
I danced wi' a girl wi' a hole in her stockin'
A' NIGHT BY THE LIGHT O' THE MOON, O.

We'd a mind to tak the wood, but she dang it were accursed
An' she dang it were awakken, An' she dang it were awakken
We'd a mind to tak the wood, but she dang it were accursed

We dangled on a stane an' it lifted an' it thwacken
An' it lifted an' it moaned, An it lifted an' it moaned
We dangled on a stane an' it lifted an' it thwacken

She shivered on my shooder an' she clung my necken closer
An' she clung my soul to freeten, An' she clung my soul to freeten
She shivered on my shooder an' she clung my necken closer

She ran me 'hint the clearin' an' we watched the folk a-dancin'
An' her mither was a-prancin', An' her mither was a-prancin'
She ran me 'hint the clearin' an' we watched the folk a-dancin'

Their heids were clad as beasties an' she cried her fayther nozzlin'
An' she speired her brither ruttin', An' she speired her brither ruttin'
Their heids were clad as beasties an' she cried her fayther nozzlin'

She had soul as white as Mary an' nae sinner yet had touched her
An' she clung 'til me to wed her, An' she clung 'til me to wed her
She had soul as white as Mary an' nae sinner yet had touched her

'Fore the light wi' dark had striven I had dang her for my wife
An' I took her soul for life, an' I took her soul for life
'Fore the light wi' dark had striven I had dang her for my wife
GOD HA' BENISON UPON THE MOON, O.

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The meaning of the song seems to be that a girl is tempted to join in a witches' orgy, but is saved by the young man who agrees to marry her. It was sung at Stockenbrig, St Michael's-on-Wyre, in the Fylde, a remote part of Lancashire, between 1849 and 1853, both on May Days and at Lammas (1 August, 3 months later). It was first published in 1936, and caused some eyebrows to be raised by its exoticism.
The collector, M.W.Myers, added this information two years later, partly in response to the suggestion that his tune was surprisingly similar to that of "Buffalo Girls", an American song popular in the mid 19th century (which, incidentally, enjoyed a new vogue in the late 1940's.) : I "collected" it in this way. I have a friend with, fortunately, a particularly retentive memory. She had often heard her father sing this song, and was told by him how he and several others used to sing it at St Michael's-on-Wyre, in the Fylde. I have the names of several of them. I knew that the tune is said not to be the original one ... Some of the singers came from families that had come from Sutherlandshire, for horse breeding or to bring sheep and cattle to the fells. This may push the origin back into Scotland, but the song was sung at St Michael's. Old John Crampton, the singer that I knew well, was descended on his mother's side from the Raes. ... As regards date of singing, I gather that May-day and Lammas were regular times ..., but it was also sung when the young fellows got together at other times.