My name is Joe. I do songs and this was one song I knew as a child growing up, learned from a book we had at school. It wasn't always easy but our teachers did their best to help the kids learn music. I learned the music and the words as I had a talent for the piano.

I was born in Glasgow in 1980 and I moved to Edinburgh in 1987 and found a new life, but not before I had found this song at nursery school in the key of C. My mum had a great singing voice and passed it on to me. In the late 80s we went to a holiday home and she bought me a piano as a present.

I went to music college in London and heard lots of folk songs on the radio on London stations, and was encouraged by staff there. It was a happy time and this was one of the many songs I later started learning properly. I love music history and there is a show on radio Scotland called Song Lines which explores the history of folk songs. I'm back here now and often do my own reviews on my dictaphone, and this website is a huge help as a resource for the kind of thing I love to do.