Hi Vic,
Yes, I learned this song form Percy Webb, and had his permission to sing it! I change the last verse to "If you've got a boring MAN, take him in a boat" etc...
Bob learnt it from Percy too.
Percy died at least 30 years ago but lives on in the songs.
Lynn.


Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Wheel the Perambulator (from B Davenport)
From: Vic Smith
Date: 12 Sep 09 - 06:23 AM

The person I always associate it with is Lynn Breeze, who was living in East Anglia in the mid-60's when I first met her and she was certainly singing it then. She used to go to the pub sessions with the old singers and could well have learned it from Percy Webb or another old Norfolk/Suffolk singer.

On the other hand, at the time Lynn was married to Trevor Sheridan who played banjo in the Marsden Rattlers, one of the bands that accompanied Bob Davenport, so she may well have learned it from Bob.