"Might I ask which country/time period this version is from? It is obviously one of the St. James Infirmary/Streets of Laredo group."

England, mid-nineteenth century, which is maybe 70 odd years after the two Irish fragments appear in the 1790s. It's supposed to be the first preserved full-length text in the thread, but I'm coming to feel that "The Unfortunate Rake", which first gets written down a little later, is a better starting-point.

Robin