Malcolm, you may have noticed I used the tune for Love Is Teasin' (I posted a link to the mp3). Jean Ritchie supplied me with the information that Sarah Makem sang the tune to a song she called "Derry Gaol", about a man being hanged.

My love he was as fine a man
As e'er nature formed or the sun shone on,
And how to gain him I do not know,
He has got his sentence for to be hung.

Alice