A.L. Lloyd recorded an Australian version on his CD The Old Bush Songs. Liner notes - Ït seems to have begun life in Ireland, originally perhaps as a lullaby purporting to be sung to the Christ Child by disgruntled Joseph.... It has undergone many changes as a cowboy song in the USA and a mildly bawdy piece among students everywhere in the English-speaking world, besides flourishing in a number of variants (mostly deriving from the same broadsie print) among folk singers. Our version here is substantially that sung by an outstanding Australian traditional singer, Mrs Sally Sloane of Teralba, NSW .... she learnt it in her young days from a neighbour in the small-farming country around Parkes.