Just a couple of personal recollections concerning this song:

I learned it at the Folk Cellar in Greek Street, Soho [aka at various times & in various avatars the Skiffle Cellar, Establishment Club &c] from Gina Glazer when she was over here in about 1957-8. Sang it from the floor a few years later while attending a gig of Peter Bellamy's in Peterborough, I think it was. He was intrigued by it, and got me to put it on tape for him when we got back to my place -- he usually stayed over with Valerie & me when he had a gig round Cambridgeshire. He sang it on a few subsequent gigs, I was told, though don't think he ever recorded it.

So I sang it at his memorial concert a year after his death, relating above as reason for my doing so; & I recall Martin & Norma Carthy expressing some interest in these reminiscences.

It's on my youtube channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/mgmyer

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