G'day yet again Jim,

I imagine that the songsheet in the Harding collection is pretty close to what Ingleton drew on for "True Patriots All, in 1952 ... and what was turned up in Ron Edwards' search for broadsides and songsheets relevant to colonial Australia in all appropriate UK collections, during the 1980s. (I'll check the images reproduced in the two books that Ron published from that trip...).

My careful comparison of the well-known version with your example from the The County magazine, Volume 1, November, 1786 still agrees with my quick appraisal of last Thursday. All the existing text has been edited for better grammar / better poetic form ... and rather "higher class" spelling conventions. On top of that, that added stanzas tend to look at 'abuses' in the upper-middle class area (lax Parsons, corrupt Judges, dodgy Merchants ... unrepentant bankrupts, 'bribing' Electoral Agents ... and Rakes!).

I think of this as "The Country Gentleman's text" ... as the source would suggest.

Regards,

Bob