Many thanks to both Malcolm Douglas and Chris/Darwen who obviously went to a lot of effort to reply to my query.

The Tommy Armstong version in Pitmatic Dialect must have been particularly difficult to retype.

The Bob Fox and Stu Luickley version as Chris says is more comprehensible and is the version that I seem to remember being sung at the Marsden folk Club in South Shields.

Many thanks for the time and trouble spent in replying to my query to you both.

I also thank my brother-in-law Tim Salt of Sidmouth East Devon who showed me the ropes on making queries on this site. Hopefully I may be able to make a positive contribution to the forum in the future.