Burl Ives Songbook has a version of the Edward Ballad under the title, Edward. It "was collected in the southern Appalachian Mountains by the English scholar Cecil Sharpe."A version which appears to be the basis for Edward and Edward Ballad is in The World's 1000 Best Poems (10 small volumes), Funk & Wagnalls copyright 1929. There it is claimed to have been translated by Algernon Swinburne from Finnish. The last line is "When God shall judge between the quick and the dead, O dear mither". I take "quick" to mean "living". "The Quick and the Dead" was the title of a book or movie, if I remember correctly.
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