We have the words to "Old Men Sing Love Songs" - Linda (Essex Girl) sings it. The song was inspired by the death of the folk song collector, George Butterworth, in WW1. The title, however seems to refer to the famous incident of Sharp overhearing John England singing "The Seeds of Love".


OLD MEN SING LOVE SONGS
John Conolly

Oh the summer was golden with music and mirth
Till the black cloud of battle rolled over the earth
For God and for country oh hear the bands play
And the flower of England is sailing away.

Chorus
    When the banks of green willow are wasted in war
    When the songs are unspoken and the larks rise no more
    Still somewhere in time love, there's a bright summers' day
    Where old men sing love songs so far far away.

Some say God is love and some say God is dead
Some say God's a dreamer in an old poets' head
But God's in some garden, some garden so green
And pulling fine flowers, so fair to be seen.

Now the Maypole is fallen and the dancers lie down
And the lark in ascension is brought to the ground
On the 5th day of August, not a cloud in the sky
But the summer is over and the long winter's nigh.