I spoke to Peter last night and he is happy for Johnny to record this song, but he too said that permission of the copyright holder was not required provided the PRs were informed by the artist of who the ccopyright holder was.

As to the words well both MCP and myself were almost correct, in the second verse Mick is correct to say "until another match turned all the heads" and I was correct to say "it's home again and up the brow"

Sadly Peter won't be joining us tomorrow night at the Runswick Bay do but I hope I planted a seed to induce him to publish a book of his songs, we talked about it for some time discussing formats, whether to put chords in, or as I suggested a couple of lines to indicate the inspiration behind the song and some of Peter's more obscure chords shapes and/or tunings

Good Luck with the album Johnny, I've PM'd Peters contact details to you , with his permission !