G'day Joybell,

On your note:
" ... My informant hasn't given me any dates but I believe it must have been collected during the 1950s-1960s. Interesting stuff. Joy ... ".

I don't think John Meredith collected from Joe Yates in his 1950s/60s collecting stint (before he stopped collecting and concentrated on writing). A lot of Joe's material was collected by Merro when he got back into field-recording in the 1980s, probably in the work that led up to the second volume of Folk Songs of Australia and the men and women who sang them, New South Wales University Press, (1987 ... ?).

Joe Yates was subject of collecting work by a variety of later field collectors in the '80s ... and I know that We're All A-Cheatin' is often performed by Rob Willis, who worked closely with Merro in his later collecting years, before illness slowed down his field work.

I'll check the home records to see when this one was collected by John.

Regards,

Bob