1. The DT entry quotes the refrain and verses 1 and 2 of the text as published by Roberton in 1950 (Songs of the Isles), but it is full of mistakes. Maybe it was transcribed from a record made by someone who hadn't bothered to learn it properly. The final verse is not by Roberton, but is a later addition by someone who felt for reasons of their own that the song ought to be longer that its maker had intended. A lot of people over the years seem to have decided that they knew better than poor old Hugh (consider the ghastly things that have been done to Mairi's Wedding and Westering Home, for example).

2. No "pre-Roberton" text, traditional or otherwise; though there may be some (unrelated) text or other associated with the tune; if anyone is able to identify it accurately.

3. Roberton himself described the melody as "traditional Gaelic tune (probably Lochaber)" Maybe it's related to that tune-group, but I can't say I'm particularly convinced at the moment. Somewhere, I have his son's account of it; but it's still in a box so I can't quote it now. I have no idea if the Tinkers or the Corries knew what they were talking about re this tune, but I wouldn't be too confident of it.

The chorus starts Hill you ho. It isn't a traditional song, so what the man who wrote it intended is what is right.