I have also heard Noel Murphy sing this song many years ago in the MSG in Manchester. This is about the level of performance that this stage Irishman can deliver, Murphy was very content to sing songs on television in many different countries, sometimes claiming to be the author, Murphy and the Bricks springs to mind, which he sang on the McCalmans show in Scotland some years ago. On the same show I remember, the great Hamish Imlach, R.I.P. took Murphy to task on live television as he had played with the real author, Pat Cooksey, in Dublin, the previous week.