Hootenanny in London, Decca LK 4545, 1963, is not exactly a compilation but a recording of a "midnight folk concert" in London in May 1963. It was the first ever recording with Martin Carthy and would have been one of the first with Anne Briggs too if only the Decca people would have managed to put her on the actual record instead of on the album cover picture. She did appear on the next Decca album though, Edinburgh Folk Festival, Decca LK 4546.

On the Hootenanny album, the author of Your Baby 'as Gorn Dahn the Plug'ole is given as Spade, without first name. In another Mudcat thread, Lyr Req: My baby got washed down the plughole, nearly exactly a year ago Q explained Jack Spade as a composite pseudonym.

This is what Martin Carthy sings:

Now a mother was bathing her baby,
bathing her baby one night.
The mother was fat and the baby was thin,
Just like a skelington covered with skin.

She only turned round for a minute,
To fetch oh some sope from the rack,
She only turned round for a minute,
But oh, when she turned back.

Why, the baby had utterly vanished,
A-vanished completely away.
Oh where, oh where is my baby?
And she heard an angel say:

Madam, your baby has gone down the plughole,
Your baby has gone down the plug.
The poor little thing was so skinny and thin,
It should have been washed in a jug.

Your baby is perfectly happy,
He won't need no bathing no more.
Your baby has gone down the plughole
Not lost, just gone before!