Barbara, my thanks also. It was driving me nuts. I knew I had the song and that it had nothing to do with Loudon WIII, splendid songwriter though he is, but I could not for the life of me place - I kept hearing a female voice and therefore was looking in the wrong places. I have the Ripley Wayfarers album in question 'Gentlemen of High Renown'. It was only the other day that I was looking at another album of theirs in connection with another thread on 'Song of the Western Men', but I did not give them a second thought in this context.

Anyhow, I think I can clear up, or perhaps add to, the confusion in the earlier thread mentioned by Barbara. The Ripley Wayfarers album note states that 'the late Pete Mundey' was 'a member of the Broadside group'. I have an album of The Broadside from Grimsby 'The Moon Shone Bright: Songs and Ballads Collected in Lincolnshire' - it does not have the said song because all tracks are traditional Lincolnshire. Pete Mundey was not a member of the group for that album, but John Conolly and Bill Meek were (other members were Tom Smith, Brian Dawson and Mike Lee). Presumably, Pete Mundey was a member of an earlier aggregation of the Broadside. It is unlikely that he would have have been later as the albums I mentioned were released within months of one another.