"THE BEST LITTLE DOOR BOY
Villikins and his Dinah has probably had more sets of words written to it than any other tune common among the English-speaking peoples. To find it turning up in the South Wales Coalfield, the heart of oratorio country, is proof of its extreme toughness. This version was collected by Alan Lomax from Jack Randall of Treorchy."

That refers to the version in my last post and the quotation is from

https://www.wcml.org.uk/maccoll/maccoll/music/industrial-songs/