Thankyou for this thread. A few years ago on one of our visits to Trewarmett, I was asked to learn this song by Edwina. It is a beautiful song but often people sing "The sharks they played melodions" In the first verse!

Just shows hows the words are changed as they are passed from one to another but then that is the folk tradition. As In a song by Graham and Eileen Pratt..."Take a song and sing it on and make it all your own"in "Kerry is no more" about a mythical session singer who has gone.

It is an evolving part of folk...whether good or bad...

Linda X