I've been listening to Far Canadian Fields, an LP on the now deleted Leader label which has field recordings by Edith Fowke of Canadian songs as a companion to her (out of print) Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs.

I have been trying to make out the words to The footboy as sung by Emerson Woodcock from Peterborough, Ontario in 1958. I can get most of the words, but not all, so I'd be grateful if anybody who has them (possibly from the Penguin book) could help me out.

It is a very intriguing song - it begins like Holland Handkerchief/Suffolk Miracle and has some elements of The Kitchie-boy so it would be nice to have some ideas about this song as well.