This was on one of Oscar Brand's Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads recordings in the late '50s - early '60s.

"And now I have come to the crux of my tale,
The hermit turned red, and then he turned pale
......
'Tho he let to the hat, yet the had didn't fall...
A Blessed Miracle!"

The same anecdote appears as one or two of the verses in "Field of the Willows," on Kendall's "I Remember Loving You" CD. Dave Goulder is given as the writer.

Peter