There is a Nova Scotia verion of "The False Knight On The Road", Edmund Henneberry with Kenneth Faulkner on fiddle (FM 4006 1956)which is now released on the compilation 3 CD "Canada -- A Folksong Portrait". Mercury 769748000-2. Henneberry was from Devil's Island, Nova Scotia.

Oh what have you in your bag, what have you in your pack?
Cried the false knight to the child on the road
I have a little primer and a piece of bread for dinner
Cried the pretty little child only seven years old

What is rounder than a ring, what is higher than a king
Cried the false knight to the child on the road?
The sun is rounder than a ring, God is higher than a king
Cried the pretty little child only seven years old.

What is whiter than the milk, what is softer than the silk?
Cried the false knight to the child on the road.
Snow is whiter than the milk, down is softer than the silk
Cried the pretty little child only seven years old.

What is greener than the grass, what is worse than women coarse?
Cried the false knight to the child on the road
Poison's greener than the grass, the devil's worse than women coarse
Cried the pretty little child only seven years old.

What is longer than the wave, what is deeper than the sea?
Cried the false knight to the child on the road
Hell is longer than the wave, love is deeper than the sea
Cried the pretty little child only seven years old.

Oh a curse upon your father, and a curse upon your mother
Cried the false knight to the child on the road
Oh, a blessing on my father, and a blessing on my mother
Cried the pretty little child only seven years old

Thanks for the correction. Since I got the CD I was thinking that the tune was Sheehan's, but you are right it's the Flowers of Edinburgh now that I compare it to a recording of that tune. At least, the fiddle part between the verses is.

Notice that part of it seems to be corrupt because the internal rhyme isn't used in some of the verses. (Milk/silk and then "grass/coarse".) He pronounces "primer" as in "prim".

PEI singer Therese Doyle also recorded a version on one of her early tapes, but I can't find it right now. She sings a little bit of mouth music diddle I dee dum with it. I think she uses different words too.