Hi,

The songs are at least related. The Drowsy Sleeper broadsides are the source of the traditional versions in the UK collected in the late 1800s and 1900s. Below is one version from William Wise of Alvescot. The same opening stanzas are found in the US- with the different ending. The other "missing US broadside" was written based on the US traditional version. Additionally stanzas have been attached to other songs in the US.

Single I'll go to my grave- Sung by William Wise of Alvescot, Oxfordshire. Collected by Alfred Williams.

Verse 1
"Awake! Awake! you drowsy[1] sleepers.
Awake! Awake! for it's almost day,
How can you sleep, love, here, any longer,
Since you have stole my heart away?"

Verse 2

"Begone! Begone! you'll wake my mother,
My father he will quickly hear,
Begone! Begone! and court some other,
And whisper softly in her ear."

Verse 3
My father heard those lovers talking,
And quickly jumped out of bed,
He put his head out of the window,
And this young man he quickly fled.

Verse 4
"Come back! Come back! don't be called a rover,
Come back! Come back! and stay with me,
And stay until his passion's over,
Your lawful bride then I will be."

Verse 5
"O daughter, dear, now I'll confine you,
Your Jimmy dear shall go to sea,
Then you can write your love a letter,
So that he can read it when far away."

Verse 6
"O father dear, pay me down my fortune,
Which is five hundred pounds, you know,
Then I will cross the watery ocean,
To where the hills are covered in snow."

Verse 7
"No daughter dear, I'll not pay your fortune,
Which is five hundred pounds I know,
Nor you'll not cross the watery ocean,
To where the hills are covered with snow."

Verse 8
"But daughter, dear, now I'll confine you,
All in your own private room,
And you shall have naught but bread and water
But once a day and that's at noon.

Verse 9
"I want none of your bread and water,
Nor any other thing you have;
If I can't have my heart's desire,
Then single I'll go to my grave."

1. spelled, "downy" in MS.

Richie