Have to take issue with Kendall's comment about a "correct" version of this song. (The points are relevant to many other songs which exist in different versions.)

It would appear that there are versions of this song which have evolved differently over time ie the Irish version where Jock Stewart takes out his dog "And him I did shoot down in the County Kildare", the version I heard my dad sing many years ago and the English version where the dog merely accompanies Jock.

(I think most of us could agree which dog we'd rather have been!)

Correctness is not really the issue. Both versions are "correct" in the context of how they have evolved.

Another example illustrates my point. There are at least three versions of Arthur McBride floating about which are widely known. The version which both Paul Brady and Bob Dylan have recorded, the version recorded by Planxty and a version (which I haven't heard recorded, but which many of my friends are familiar with) which I learnt from my family which is different again from each of these. There doesn't appear to me to be much point in debating the "correctness" of these. They've evolved through different paths is all.