Interesting, when Tony Cuffe does Caledonia (When first I went to Calednia, I god loading at number three and I got boarding at Donald Norman's, He had a daughter who made good tea) he tells about the song being about the pit mines up in Nova Scotia. The song also has the verse about putting his head to a cask of brandy. Yet another canada connection, of course, who settled those areas, and what phrases from their traditions did they bring with them, and what phrases sprang up this side of the pond?

Susan A-R