sadie damascus's verse is described in the Opies' 'The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes' as an adaptation of the ballad. Their history is close to that which I gave from Child above. The two lasses were both said to be in love with the young man that brought them provisions- so much for lesbians. They weren't buried in a churchyard because plague victims could not to be buried there, according to the Opies.