If you skip the first few verses and start with the one beginning "Word is to the kitchen..." the words are very like those sung by the Patons. I learned their version because I liked both tune and words much better than the usual ones, and because I think it's a great story. The problem with a version that people have heard a lot is I think they stop hearing it, and then when they hear a different version the story surprises them all over again.

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