In the early to mid-sixties, I was living in a room that overlooked Avery Hill Park in south-east London. One Sunday afternoon, I looked out to see a fairly large crowd watching some strange ball game. I decided to wander over and have a look and it didn't take long to work out that all the spectators were Irish. On enquiry, I was told that that was the final of the All-England Gaelic Games.
After the game, I picked up a discarded programme and expected to find out a bit more about the game from it, To my surprise, the majority of the programme was taken up with the words of Irish traditional songs. Some of the songs, I knew the tunes to and I learned the ones that I fancied from it. One of the songs was The Skillet Pot and I liked the look of the words but had no idea how the melody went. I didn't come across the song again for years until the Tim Lyons album (The Green Linnet LP, Trailer LER 3036, 1972) came out and I was able to hear the tune and learn the song.

The words in the programme were identical to the words on the album except the programme's leprechaun for Tim's clúracán.