Nobody has recorded on this long thread ~ tho ard mhacha just above comes nearest ~ that when we were all singing this song in mid-50s when Margaret Barry's famous rendition hit the Revival, Karl Dallas (or Fred, as he was known then) asked her in an interview where she had learned it ~ parents, other Travellers?. "Oh no," she replied' "I learned it off a gramophone record by Count John McCormack". Karl reminded of this during the recent BBC4 Folk Britannia series.