There's a great recording of Tim Lyons singing it on the ITMA website that might interest you, Jim Bainbridge.

It's funny about a lot of Tannahill's songs that they're ostensibly love songs, yet he spends more time in them banging on about the splendours o nature than he does about the purported object of his affections! See 'Gloomy Winter.' And in the case of 'Are ye sleepin Maggie', it's the gothic horrors of nature...