Malcolm,
Are you saying that the version of the Recruited Collier printed in Come All You Bold Miners, and credited to a singer from Westmoreland - if my memory serves me right - is not what it seems? ( I have mislaid the book in one of my infrequent tidyings-up at home. )
I should be interested to see & hear the original collected version you are referrring to. Would you post it here?
Mary