June's version, and that by Bellowhead on their 'Matachin' album seem to have come from Shirley Collins. She came across it in the 1950s in John Stokoe's 'Songs and Ballads of Northern England' but, as she writes in her Within Sound 4 CD set, 'It had a major tune that didn't quite fit the mood of the words, so I slightly altered it. Alan Lomax wrote in his notes for 'False True Lovers' that the listener who care to compare the recorded version with that of Stokoe will see how Miss Collins has breathed life back into the print and made something lovely and alive out of an unimpressive folk fragment.'