Helen Hartness Flanders (Ancient Ballads Traditionally Sung in New England, vo. 4, 1965, p. 63) wrote of this ballad that "Many informants refuse to sing this ballad on moral grounds, though the lines that have caused them to feel this way are not to be found in print." Now "unprintable" versions have been printed (see Vance Randolph, Roll Me in Your Arms, University of Arkansas Press, 1992, pp. 53-57).
~Masato