G'day GUEST, Peace & Malcolm,

This was obviously a popular song with the rambling Irish ... a version, localised to Australia by just changing the locality names, turns up here ... and was collected ... and still gets sung.

(Some years back, I was setting up camp in beautiful Araluen - at the foot of the Australian Alps, south of Sydney. The only other person in the camping ground was a middle-aged bloke who said he was picking potatoes on a nearby farm. When I introduced myself ... then my wife Pat ... he immediately started singing: "Hello, Patsy Fagan, ...".)

I'll check the collection details for the one in BMC publications (and publish the tune ...) when I get home.

Regards,

Bob