Thanks, Malcolm, for the useful link to Ravenscroft - new to me. And this is one of our 'singing in the car' songs - good fun.

Seeing the reproduced pages reminds me to ask (at risk of thread-creep, I know - but, Hey!) Ravenscroft labels this a 'Freemans song'. Baring-Gould talks in another case of collecting a 'Three Mans song' and gives an arrangement for three voices. Since he researched 'The Owl' which is labelled a 'Freemans song'it must have been more than a slip of the dentures.

Any hints as to what might be going on here?

Martin