Is the melody of this song from another piece of music?

I swore I wrote a reply to this yesterday but it was either deleted or I forgot to hit reply. what I wanted to say was that it's most likely not a folk song. Instead if it was an older tune it was probably an instrumental or written to be performed by a singer. This song might have a lot of rhythm/melody patterns similar to traditional American folk songs like I've been working on the railroad, but has too many notes outside of the scale and large jumps (especially one that's an octave and a half between why and I). Folk songs usually only use easier to remember and sing intervals like 2nds - 6ths. They also usually only have 5-6 different notes, but this song has 9. This seems much more like a song that would have been practiced before being sung and not something that people would just sing for fun/while they worked/mined gold.

It does a bit. I have never heard that song before though.

I was instantly reminded of the childrens' song "Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?"  Linking the following video simply because the animation is hilariously terrible:



I did a little digging into where this song came from, and found that it was written in 1864 by a composer name Septimus Winner (which is a hell of a name), who got inspiration for the tune to that song from this German folk song, titled "In Lauterbach hab i mein Strumpf verlorn," written in 1827:



Is it possible either one of these songs was the one you were trying to think of as the similar tunes?