There are times when strange things happen with it, that's for sure.

The song hasn't been found in tradition, I think, and it's been sung in the Revival to a number of tunes set to broadside texts.  Mike Harding set it to a variant of Dives and Lazarus, another form of which was used for the early-20th century song Star of the County Down; Nic Jones set it to a modified form of an (unnamed) "traditional tune", and Roy Palmer set it to a tune taken from Baring Gould's Songs of the West, but I don't have that particular Palmer book and can't tell you which tune it was.