Of some age, too, and probably still current. The version Gordeanna recorded was described at the time (1978) as "collected recently by Jim Mahon from his grandmother in Glasgow". Often known as O Gin You were Dead Gudeman; beside the set Matsuo mentions, taken from a Jean Redpath record, there are two others in the DT:

SIX EGGS IN THE POT - one verse from Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland (1847), plus text from the Scots Musical Museum (1796); with notes. The tune is specified but not given.

Most of the examples listed in the Roud Folk Song Index, where it is number 5844, are from Scotland; though both P. W. Joyce and Sam Henry published sets found in Ireland.