TY Steve,

According to Jeannie Robertson her version of this ballad variant was learned in Aberdeen about 1918:

To listen: http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/24303/1

Miss Brown of Dublin City- Recorded by Jeannie Robertson; Sept. 1953
Reporters - Hamish Henderson; Jean Ritchie; She recorded it under the title of "The Murder of Thomas Brown in October 1953. It was covered by MacColl as "Miss Brown."

In Dublin's fair city
In Dublin's fair town
In Dublin's fair city
There lived a Miss Brown.

For she courted a sailor
For seven long years,
And from the beginning
He called her his dear.

But one morning very early,
All by the break o' day.
For he came to her window
And to her he did say:

"Rise up bonnie Mary
And come along with me;
For such things they will happen
And such things we will see."

But he took her over mountains
And he took her over dales;
And he left his poor Mary
For to weep and for to wail[1].

"Oh sailor, Oh sailor,
Come spare me my life,"
But out of his pocket,
He drew a pocket knife.

Oh he stabbed her and he ripped her
And he cut her in three
And he buried poor Mary
Underneath a green tree.

1. cry (hard to hear)