I guess, Guest, you wan't to know the origins of the song for which you've posted the first verse.

The only recorded version I have is by Martin Gorman on The Voice of The People series of CDs Vol 16 "Troubles they are but few".

Although the CD's all come with comprehensive 70 odd page booklets, the focus of the series was on the people rather than the songs/tunes so there's plenty about Martin but, as for the song the booklet only provides the words and the fact that it was recorded in the Fox Islington in 1966.

Martin was the brother of the famous Michael Gorman, the fiddle player and father of Michael Gorman, the flute player who played with my father in law. In fact Martin came to London and worked in the building trade for my father in Law who was a fiddle player from the same part of Sligo. Martin can be seen, wearing a hat and step dancing outside The Favourite PH in London on the cover of the Paddy in The Smoke album.

Unfortunately Martin and my father in law have both passed on so there's no way of asking there where he got the song from. Reg Hall, producer of the series, may have some info and I'll ask when next I see him. If you'd asked last week I could have asked Reg at my club, where he was playing with that other Sligo flute player Seamus Tansey.

So, plenty about Martin but nowt about the song from me!