Ferrara wrote "The rabbit trapper cracked me up. Is the the one about the canny bunny snatcher? Not well known here! Nice to know it's a standard chorus song elsewhere."

'Tis indeed the one about the canny bunny snatcher. The other one was written by Ted Egan (who has definitely come up in the world), reputedly because when he attended his first folk festival he heard a lot of shanty singing without really knowing what they were all about, so he wrote a great song in what he thought of as a shanty format.

Cheers, Rowan