Dunno, Tradsinger - It loads and plays fine in MusicEase and Harmony Assistant. There's a redundant bracket at the end of the melody - you could try deleting that and also some of the % annotations, but I don't know why they should affect things.

Mick - I haven't heard any other version, and of course the original poem has no chorus. I did hear Frank Mansell read this, and Peter Tatham's singing has much of the feel of his reading. But there's more than one way to present a song.

Phil