Elsie's Band will have got it from Cornwall certainly, as they frequent the area over Mayday. It's been sung traditionally down there for decades. Mervyn Vincent did indeed sing it, but many of the fisherman's choirs down there also do so.

We recorded it on one of our CDs as sung by Mervyn, having sung it ourselves for years, then met up with Jeff Warner, and were surprised at how similar the two versions were. The sheet music varies quite drastically from the traditional versions in the USA and here.

Barbara