Not so much on the origins but connected. In December 2010 was hiking in Hapao, Hungduan province, deep into the Mountains in the northern Philippines. An amazing and beautiful region but very remote (and about 11,000 miles from "The Liberties") so you can imagine that I nearly fell out of me shoes when I heard some of the native children there singing this song - with a lot of the words having a decidedly inner-city Dublin accent. It turns out a Dublin chap has got himself married to one of the local girls and they visit here every couple of years. I remember the song from way back when but it came as a real shock to hear sang so faithfully in such exotic surroundings.