Much thanks for that John, so we can credit McCall with another classic alongside "Boolavogue", "Kelly the Boy From Killanne" and "Follow Me Up to Carlow".

Re the other song "Henry Joy", this is often credited to T.P.Cuming whoever he or she was. A friend was in touch with Fred Heatley recently and FH, now old and quite frail, said that he recalled the song being sent in to and published in the "Irish Weekley" (of which he was I think Editor at the time)in the mid 60s. There might be a clue there. FH suspects that Cuming was simply the name of the person that submitted the song, not the author. Is the "Irish Weekly", indexed John, can you access it?