Malcolm Douglas: you assume, and I think I do, that AG Gilchrist's reference to "This old man came rolling home" must be to the song we know now. But can we be absolutely sure of that, if we havent got an English version actually written or recorded. If it was familiar to Gilchrist as a first world war route march song, shouldnt there be a written version knocking around to confirm this, and that doesnnt seem to have shown up yet.