This tune has surfaced as a rarity in a Fairport Convention box. The notes say that the band learned it "from a Quebec taxi driver".

Various people including Aly Bain have recorded it. From the very dusty corners of my memory (around 1970!), I seem to remember that Dave Swarbrick said the French Canadian gent was Jean-Luc Carignan.

A quick Google didn't reveal Mr. Carignan - any of you erudite people heard of him?