"A New Song of Wakefield Gaol" ("Good people all give ear I pray") may neither have been so new nor originally about Wakefield Gaol. The same song appears in other broadsides with roughly similar dating (1840-1866), as "A New Song of Preston Gaol" (published by the same printer, J. Harkness of Preston), "County Gaol/Jail", "Kirkdale Gaol" and "Bellevue Goal" [sic]; also "Duke St. Gaol", with a later dating [1860-1874]. It was in existence at least by "c. 1850", the estimated dating for "Kirkdale Gaol". In all of these versions, the only substantive change is the name of the gaol. The text also appears as "The Humours of Cork Jail", so no doubt the Irish will claim the English stole this "fine Irish song."