Curiously, I have no recollection of seeing this thread before - despite the fact that I'm the "MR" noted at the foot of Áine's posting of the DT version many years ago. I have long since heard John Moulden's lovely final verse from several Northern singers but have never used it myself.

I recall commenting some years ago, at a workshop at the Tocane festival in France, that the song feels to me like a fragment of a "broken token" song.

Regards