Wasn't Gordon Hall notorious for adding to his songs when he heard versions of them that had other verses?

Anahata

It wasn't just "when he heard versions of them that had other verses", Gordon actively sought out additional verses to fill out or complete the versions of songs that he sung; for Gordon, a song could never be too long! I was one of a number of people in Sussex that Gordon used to obtain more information about and verses for his songs.
When the phone went and a voice said something like, "Hello Vic, Gordon here. Now, Lord Bateman or Bakeman or Buchan or Baker or Beichan....." you knew that you were in for a) a long phone call and b) some searches through you book and record shelves to find out what he was after. And as he sang most weeks at our folk club, you could hear the 'before and after' effect of the interesting way he added the extra material, sometimes adapted by him to fit his particular style.

Ther last time I spoke to him not long before his last admission to hospital, he had phoned to say, " Now, a ballad that I really like is Hind Horn, but the only tune that I can find for it, I don't like. Can you help me out?" Well, off the top of my head I couldn't. But in the week that he died I received an album with a field recording of a fantastic version of Hind Horn with a great melody sung by an old Canadian lumberman, Joe Estey.

All I could do was to learn the song and sing it at Gordon's memorial concert in Horsham.