Ivy Green, song for bass and piano

This is a setting of an English early 19th century Broadside, written for a friend who is a singer as a birthday present. The spindly, skeletal and slightly dissonant nature of the accompaniment is deliberate, as it reflects my interest in early American published music which do have very minimal kinds of accompaniments, sometimes with "wrong notes" littering the landscape owing to the vagaries of early music printing in this country.

Nevertheless, there are some serious problems with the song. There are some undesirable conflicts of voice and harmony in mm. 38, 52 and 79-80. And the closing measures, 91 to the end, are not functional -- this was a deal killer in terms of my friend performing the song. :(

So I am open to any fixes that would be suggested, within reason. The tempo as marked is a little too slow; the audio file below runs at 90mm.

Ivy Green.mp3 - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage

Finale 2003a - [Ivy Green.pdf