So even that little improvement is not my own invention!

Noreen, you are quite safe. There are many things I can't do, and one is sing. This is not false modesty, it's a fact. I just like to latch on to the songs that tell the stories of our times, and first heard this one on a chum's reel-to-reel tape, way back around the time Leeds won the FA Cup - first time. So 1965-ish. Where it was recorded and who was singing I know not, but it was two women.

Someone told me they'd heard The Two Bridies singing it in Halifax around that time. I myself heard this duo on a radio show not long after that, and listened specifically for Back Buchanan Street. They didn't sing it. All I can remember of what they did sing are "Shoals of Herring" - which I see in Joan's list from the songbook - and one about a Christmas tree with no lights, by Cyril Tawney. My guess is that first there were the two Bridies,then Jacqui replaced one of them.

I asked about Back Buchanan Street because I thought it deserved to be in the DT. I've always assumed that if lyrics get into these posts, they get from there into the DT by osmosis, but maybe I should check this with Joe Offer.