So pleased to come across the words again after so many years of playing it on melodeon and concertina with only the chorus and a few fragments managing to struggle to the surface of my memory. I've searched the net on several occasions but never got further than references to E J Moeran and an enigmatic track listing from Peter Kennedy's site.

I picked up the tune from Pete Nalder who used to sing it in the back bar of The Locomotive in Newton Abbott in the late 60s. (And in the upstairs room of the Lord Nelson in Kingskerswell as well as at Sunday afternoon gatherings at the house of his neighbour, Fred Austin) Never having seen the words written down I heard and remembered the phrase "Kitty I am, a stor" as "Kitty I am as thaw" - which has an appropriately melting feel to it. (I did consider "Kitty I am as Thor" as a possibility but it brings to mind the Norse mythology joke which ends, "Do you realise I'm Thor?" to which the answer from the seduced Scandinavian maiden is, inevitably, "Tho'm I, but I'm thatithfied")

Pete had a marvellous repertoire of songs. One I would love to hear again is his version of "The Lakes of Coolfin" which he said he had learned from an Irish nurse while he was recovering in hospital from scarlet fever.