(Two previous attempts have been made to post this, but for some reason it seems not to "take":
So let's try one more time...)

I suppose that some of these old songs require that a bit of our hearts yet somehow linger amidst the mists of the 19th Century long past, in order for us to fully appreciate them, especially in the manner in which they were probably originally intended to be rendered.

I perform the piece in "G", although it works pretty well in "C" as well.

As a function more of luck than virtuosity, I think, I happened to stumble on to a fingerpicking guitar pattern that fits it to a tea, with appreggio or "pinches" on appropriate chords keeping up the peculiar beat to it's 9/8 time. I'm not much of a Dancer, but I would think that it would be a daisy of a tune to waltz to.