Pip Radish - asked:

>Vic: Unlike the earlier versions, Jon's printed song book was the first to have the musical >stave of each song noted, but, Matt, none of the Coppers can sight-read music.

>I'm confused. Who wrote the setting shown on this page & who did they write it for? I >assumed it was out of The Book - & that they sang from the stave - but I guess not.

The music was written by Dave & Caro Kettlewell - and Brasser's original book had no musical notations.

Tim Radford