To add to the confusion:

On Nov. 26, 1932, the Irish song collector Sam Henry published the following text (with tune)in the Coleraine "Northern Constitution":   

I dreamt I saw my own dear bride,
Lowlands, lowlands away, my John.
I dreamt I saw my own dear bride,
My lowlands away.

[similarly:]

And she was dressed in shimmering white.

All dressed in white, like some fair bride.

And then she smiled her sweetest smile.

She sang and made my heart rejoice.

The salt seaweed was in her hair.

It filled my heart with dark despair.

And then I knew that she was dead.

Then I awoke to hear the cry.

"All hand on deck! Oh, watch ahoy!"

This appears on p. 144 of _Sam Henry's Songs of the People_ (1990).

The infuriating note by the editors says: "Source not given."

If this text has appeared upthread, I apologize. It was easier to copy it than to search the entire thread.

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