Wolfgang, Delayed response, but I have now been serenaded enthusiastically over the phone by my father singing the Irish Jubilee, or at least part of it. It was the right song, and he knows the tune: that version had more verses than he remembered so it was much appreciated. Thank you very much for your help, and whoever for the luck that my tiny part triggered your tiny part, and that that found it in Forum search. I think my father has spent part of the day searching through his 78s, but found that what he had was Phil the Fluter's Ball. (Which doesn't surprise me, as I would have known it better if it had been there. It must have been one of the records his mother gave away.) And he does remember it as Parliament, which would have made the celebrations extremely enthusiastic.