Well, actually, specifically I'm looking for A.L. Lloyd's words to "When Johnson's Ale Was New" from the 1956 Riverside LP "English Drinking Songs"...which is where Tom (Curmudgeon) learned it.

I've been learning a lot of Tom's songs to carry them on in our circle at least. Tom got most of his early (1960s-1970s) repertoire from LPs of Bert Lloyd and Ewan MacColl -- when Tom had expressed an interest in English folk music his father went out and bought him two albums, Lloyd's and MacColl's, and Tom was off and running...

I'm sure I have the LP in our collection, but my turntable is buried. I'm not sure if I have a tape of Tom singing it, but I still hear his voice loudly in my memory -- just not accurately enough to wrap my brain around all the lyrics. The thing is, Tom really hadn't sung it often in the past ten or fifteen years or so before he lost his voice to vocal cord cancer. I just know that none of the lyrics I've found in the DT or googled are what Tom sang.

Can anyone help me out?

Linn