Duncan Emrich ['American Folk Poetry'] gives the text [2 stanzas and chorus only] that is in the DT under the title 'When Cockle Shells Turn Silver Bells' as 'Waly Waly' and as an American version rather than English. He recorded it from Eugenia Blount Anderson of Maryland in 1947. Mrs Blount learned it orally in Georgia. The recording is on Library of Congress AFS record 8934 A2.

--Stewie.