On the double CD "Walter Pardon - Put a Bit of Powder on it, Father" {Musical Traditions MTCD 305-6) Walter sings a fragment of a song which he called "The Harland Road"(Roud 13654). This is how I transcribed his words:

Come and see the Kaiser, all on the Harland Road
Come to the back and [?] the place where I abode
You mustn't touch a rabbit, or anything that's there
'Til up to Harland Sitting, you surely will appear.


Lies when you're sleeping, lies when you're dead
Lies all around you, lies on your head
Oh, if you are a liar, you know you're very wrong
For liar is the Kaiser's song.

The reference to the Kaiser suggested that the song dated from around the time of the Great War (1914 - 18). I have elsewhere suggested that the song actually refers to a place in France. Others have suggested that this is incorrect and that the this probably originated in England, the Kaiser being a nickname for a local magistrate.

Recently I discovered that there is a railway station in Norfolk called Harling Road, which is about 6 miles to the south-west of Attleborough. There is also a large wooded area close to the station which is known as Harling Woods. Could it be that Walter's Harland was originally Harling and that, if the song does refer to local poachers, could they have been active in Harling Woods? Can anyone throw any further light on this?