Steve, thank you. I'd be interested to see the melodies too.

Richie, what made me wonder about the direction of borrowing of those "tell you my mind" lines is that it looks to me as if they fit better in a "Cuckoo"-type song of disappointed love than they do the "Pretty Polly" story. In Uncle Pat Fry's song, the four lines make sense as the words of one person: first he says he wants to tell her his mind, and then he tells her it (and presumably she isn't interested, so he moves on). In "Pretty Polly", he obviously isn't thinking of marriage, but she probably is, so the only way I can make sense of the four lines is to imagine that he says he wants to tell her his mind, and then, without waiting for him to do it, she tells him her mind. It looks if the lines have been forced into a story they didn't originally belong to. But you know better than I do if they are common in versions of "Pretty Polly".