Hi,

TY also Mollie. There are dozens of cover versions which I can't use. Molly Bawn - The Dubliners 1968. Written by; Luke Kelly; Barney Mackenna; Ronnie Drew. If they can't really say where they got the version then I have to assume it's a cover, a rewrite of another version, changed slightly.

A.L. Lloyd's version however is similar- I can't use it either- because he probably got it from Gales.

Benjamin Britten's text (1958) is very similar to the Lloyd/Gales/Cox texts which I assume he got from Moeran.

Richie