Seems a popular song these days. I first heard Mike Harding singing it many many moons ago, and learned the words from his "A Lancashire Lad" album.

In the last year, it has been released on two wonderful albums. Martin Carthy sings a hauntingly beautiful version on The Imagined Village's Empire and Love , and Bellowhead sing it on their new album Hedonism.

Thinking on, I reckon I have a version of it by Martin Carthy alone somewhere.... A good friend who is no longer with us used to sing it in our local folk club too. What I like about the song is the recognition of social layers within social layers.