A version pretty close to the above but with tune is given by Kenneth Peacock in 'Songs of the Newfoundland Outports' Vol 2 p380 as performed by Harry Curtis. He called it 'Irish Ghost Song' and as well as singing it he recited it.

A 16 stanza version is given in Flanders and Brown 'Vermont Folk-Songs and Ballads' (1931) p126 contributed by Mary A Towne from the singing of her Vermonter relations, but I suspect this is the Nebraska version you refer to above.

Not surprisingly, like many traditional ballads, the ballad was mercilessly burlesqued by the likes of Sam Cowell on both sides of the Atlantic in the early Music Hall.