Hi Harry!

"Is that you my dearest Harry, returned to me again?
Many days have I lamented, and many a night made moan,
No joys nor comforts have I had since from me you've been gone." :-)

I can't help with the Mike Canavan song, but will have to try a pub crawl around Middleton one day since I've recently discovered an ancestor of mine ran a building yard there in the mid-19th century, and according to some family accounts he knew the pubs extremely well!

Matthew