A problem arises with the New Song...the music in Chambers Book of Days doesnt fit the words totally, there's a mis match somewhere. And the intriguing often mentioned point is the similarity between the two tunes and the two Padstowe May Songs.Are they to be explained by aformerly widespread pair of songs which died out in the large area between Padstowe and Manchester, or are we looking at some Cornish miners settling in the north-west? Or Mancunians on holiday in Cornwall leaving the songs behind 200 years ago?