Malcolm, thank you for your effort - especially since searching very nearly a year of Blackwood's must have been a chore.

Some of the text you quote is given in Bruce and Stokoe, Northumbrian Minstrelsy but there is nothing in the passage you quote which justifies Stokoe, in Songs and Ballads of Northern England, attributing the words of the song to Doubleday.

I wonder how it was known that Doubleday was the writer with the rustic pseudonym.

What other songs are given? (Note the wish to get as much from you as possible - virtue is its own punishment.)

I would much appreciate a copy of the tune but if it is the same as is in Bruce and Stokoe or Stokoe, it would be enough tosay so.

jmoul81075@aol.com

Thanks again

John