"a shower to stun"? I've always sung it as "shun", which makes sense, at least.

I remember that when I sang this (when I was working with Mary McLaughlin as Anonyma) we were puzzled when someone requested "the song about the pub". After a lot of questions we finally established it was Polly Vaughan/Molly Bawn, and the reason it was thought to be about a pub was the listener had heard "in the room of the Swan".

Not a mondegreen, but creative, huh?

Anne