Thanks and a tip o' the hat to JIM DIXON for those suggested lyric corrections to the Ewan MacColl version. Those I posted are "as heard" by me, from a radio show on KPFA in Berkeley around 1979. This I recorded on my 7-inch reel-to-reel Teac tape deck. And their recording was scratchy! I don't recall the name of the show (it was NOT Folkscene), but the theme of the show was "Bad Guys and Gamblers", with a sub-theme of how the bad guys in folk songs can sometimes be the good guys.

Some other songs in that genre on that tape are "Rambling, Gambling Willie" by Bob Dylan, "Pretty Boy Floyd" by Woody Guthrie, and "The Ballad of Weaverville" by Mary McCaslin. There are others but I don't recall them at the moment. Some were Child ballads I'm sure. I haven't listened to this tape in many years.