In addition to what Martin Ryan wrote about "the fern uncurled to look at her", John McCormack sung these words and also the following:

"Twas on the First o' May" (not "Summer's day");

"I found me heart was piped away..."

"Lest she might also steal me soul"

"Like a dead leaf in her hand"

By the way, I'm pretty sure the song on the record I've got is entitled "The Short Cut TO the Rosses" (which is how I've always sung it). However, I'm writing this in a Library, from memory, and therefore won't be too firm in this; likewise, the use of "me" for "my" is how I recall McCormack's version. I think it dates from the mid-1930s.