The plot thickens. When I looked at the notebook version of Edmund Fry's version, firstly it was called "The Green Cockade" and secondly it didn't have the dying soldier but went off into the familiar "May you never prosper" verses. Does this mean that the dying soldier version is a Rev SBG rewrite? This would indeed suggest that my informants words (not the tune) did derive from SOW.

I hope Martin Graebe sees this thread as he is the expert on SBG.

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