With my mother's help I think I've tracked down the tune (at least the A-part!) that I've adapted for this poem. It's evidently Johnnie o' Breadisley as sung by Ewan MacColl on English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads), Volume 1, Folkways FG 3509, 1961. That tune's been rattling around in my head for almost 50 years; it's about time I put it to use!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble