I rarely get involved with this site (or the web in general) but felt, in this instance, that I should clarify some misinformation.

To all intents and purposes, the tune and short, but brilliant, chorus ARE Richard Grainger's (with our arrangement) and we have always credited him with this. We invariably acknowledge this whenever we sing it live and mentioned him, among others, in the credits on the recording 'The Wilson Family Album' in 1991 on which this song is included.

The words of the 5 verses of our version of Nelson's Death and Victory are, virtually all, from Roy Palmer's - The Valiant Sailor in which he gives his sources as "George Dunn collated with a broadside by Kendrew of York".
However, the 5th line of verse 4 is missing and Richie's - 'let him die in peace God bless you all' - fit very well, so we used that.

Richie's version doesn't have verses 3 or 5 of the original Palmer version which are, of course, used in ours.

Other than the above, we haven't added or removed anything and most of our audiences seem to think we've got it about right. I hope this clarifies things.