Milwaukee News (Apr. 8, 1933). As sung in the 1870s.            

                  BLOW THE MAN DOWN

There was an old farmer in Liverpool dwelled
    Sing heigh-ho, blow the man down
He had an old wife and he wished her in h---!
    Sing heigh-ho, blow the man down!

Blow the man down, boys, blow the man down,
      It takes a long time to blow the man down.

The farmer was plowing his field on day…

Along came the devil and to him did say…

(There should be more, but that's all we get. Child 278.)