[8] English variants of the song, which are closely structured on the original Scottish versions, are also known under the titles "Earl Richard" and "The Proud Girl".

"[9] Spiers and Boden recorded a version of the English variant in 2001 on the album Through & Through and credited the author as "Miss Stephenson of Glasgow" and said it was written in 1825.

[6] "The Proud Girl" is an arrangement of the song by A. L. Lloyd that was performed at the Top Lock Folk Club in Runcorn, Cheshire on November 5, 1972.

The song is closely related to another Child Ballad, "Young Benjie", as it not only deals with a similar theme, but almost identical story, in which a male lover is murdered and thrown in a river by his female companion.

Another similar song is "Lowe Bonnie", recorded by Jimmie Tarlton in 1930 and the Klemmedsons of the Ozark Folk Center, Mountain View, Arkansas, in 1972.

It too is considered a variant of Child #68: Lowe Bonnie is described as a "hunting young man", he tells his "old true love" that he has a new woman, and she stabs him to death with a pen knife.

"Henry Lee", a variant of "Young Hunting", is a song by the Australian post-punk band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

The song, which features a duet between frontman Nick Cave and the English alternative rock musician PJ Harvey, is alternately–arranged in comparison to other more traditional versions of "Henry Lee".