G'day Jim,

That looks pretty interesting (over the yoghurt course of lunch at work terminal ...). I'll need to lay the two versions against each other to get the real feel of how ( ... and why ... ) this version appears. At a guess, I would say that (in November 1786) the preparations for shipping all sorts of inconvenient people as far from England as possible were in the news.

It may well be that someone writing for the Country Magazine picked up a copy of the songsheet from a hawker ... and decided to rework it to suit publication and/or the slant of that publication.

Regards,

Bob