According to this site- http://www.mysongbook.de/msb/songs/c/cooriedo.html - "This was one of two songs that came out of a visit to a Yorkshire pit in 1962. (Notes Stramash, 'McGinn of the Calton')" Perhaps when he was at Huddersfield TTC? I don't know of a Curbly in Yorkshire but it could have been a mishearing of Kirby or he could have just made it up!
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