I posted a MIDI I transcribed from the sheet music Q sent me. Q, do we know anything more about this song? Is it traditional, or did Peacock write it? I can't figure out the notation on the sheet music, but I'm sumising that teh song was sung by Arthur Nicolle at Rocky Harbour, Newfoundland, August, 1958 - and that Peacock collected the song from him.

Any other instances of this song?

The sheet music has a fermata on the first note of "run" in the first verse. It just didn't sound right to me, so I left it out. Seems to me there should be a slight pause after "run," but not at the beginning of it. Must be a mistake in the songbook, since everybody knows Joe Offer doesn't make mistakes...

-Joe Offer-