The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #162666   Message #3879632
Posted By: Lighter
01-Oct-17 - 01:28 PM
Thread Name: New Book: Folk Song in England
Subject: RE: New Book: Folk Song in England
>The well-known version is definitely a 1960s concoction, though.

When a friend returned from a year in Cork, ca1984, he said the version that he heard a good deal had the chorus slightly revised into

"So it's no, nay, never,
(Right up yer arse!)
No, never no more...."

Otherwise, the "well-known version."