There has been a lot of rewriting in this family of songs both by broadside hacks and in oral tradition. The earliest extant member of the family is indeed 'Saw you my father' Child 248 but stanzas from this 4 stanza text do appear in other members of the family, notably Cecilia Costello's unique version. Costello's version as I have said elsewhere is most likely an amalgam of the 2 main Scottish members of the family and the Irish broadside 'Willy O'. To my mind at least it is the most beautiful member of the family though I sing versions of all of them.