Thanx for the help so far it looks like the origin of this song isnt qiute cut and dried.

I just remembered to check the search subjects facility and I see this discussion has been had before. how strange that such a popular song has such a vague past...

Heres that previous discussion..

Discussion of the origins of song Easy and Slow

Yours

Jim Clark
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