The person who believes this was new for 'Children in Need' a few years ago -- why do you think this? Various people have told me that particular people wrote it, but with no supporting data. I learnt it from Phil Allcock sometime between 1986 and 1988, and have been trying to track down its origin ever since. Phil had no idea and had learnt it in the oral tradition; he tacked on the title "On the Specialisation of Industrial Sites in the Glorious Soviet Union". I sang it to my mother who said she knew it from the sixties, but with no more information -- of course she could have been mistaken.