Terry McDonald's of 0724 above is, I am sure, a curtailed (in turn) version of one of my 15 winning entries to the ballad·summarised·as·limerick competition,Folk Review November 1972, which ran, ""It wasn't a sensible thing To have it away with the king," Said Mary so sadly As she jerked about madly And twitched on the end of a string" . Agreed? I feel as if I have been collected from tradition, or something!

Sorry all — didn't mean to drift the thread like this: at least mine was about the song under discussion...