Tunney got a lot of his songs from his mother. Whilst he did embellish some of his songs it may well still be totally oral.

The first 2 lines of the second stanza are absolutely typical of Irish broadsides/eighteenth century pleasure garden material/ Gaelic translation.

Where did you get the text (which page) in Bunting? In my copy all I can see is a tune and I can't sightread anyway.