Did you ever get any elucidation on that intriguing Pommy version of Lazy Harry's? I seem to remember reading it some time around September 2000 - when you posted to this forum (although I was doing my best to be anywhere else in Australian than Sydney, which was in Olympics frenzy mode at the time!) Was there also discussion in some other forum ... such as AusWorldFolk?
Anyway, I'd be interested to hear if you found out any more about the provenance of this lovely version. It certainly reads as if it was written by someone with a good local knowledge (as against the occasional Pommy 'remake'" that tries to 'translate' into "English" terms that one sees). The use of a "Wearing of the Green"-type tune suggests a fair level of antiquity. That tune certainly got a boost (and a change of passport!) when Dion Boucicault pinched it off the Scots for his musical-play song Wearing of the Green in 1848 ... and would have been heard more widely in that form than its original use as a setting of one of the Scots poet Robert Tannahill's poems.
I'd be a bit surprised if it appeared in a 'non-Irish' context much beyond the turn of the 20th century (it certainly saw service in Australia as a tune for some Ned Kelly ballads ... but that would probably have been seen as an "Irish" usage - to some degree).
I had a look at Veteran's web site - and they don't seem to have listed VT 103 in their current CD offerings. Do you know of anywhere that I could find an audio file of this song?