Joe

Earliest date 1973????? Well, we were singing it at summer camp (the Power in the Blood version - although I never clicked to the connection before now!) in the late '60s and it was a golden oldie of the camp even then. I'm pretty sure my mum knew it, and if she learned it at camp it would have been pre WW II. Alternatively, she would have learned it from her brothers who were in the armed forces during the war.

Actually, I'll have to ask her. It's the type of song that Grampa would have known, which would put it WW I.

Anyone have any other chronology on this?

siân