Meant to put a '?' after "by Ewan MacColl": not quite clear if he claimed to have collected it or not.

Robin Dransfield's version is OK, but an amalgam from various versions ~~ like the words sung by Sim & Garf for that matter, but not that sung by Ewan which appears to be Mr Anderson's version correctly reproduced. No indication where Robin got his tune from: another variant, or his own composition? I do not find his rendering preferable, myself: partly for the lack of a source for the tune, which doesn't strike me as a very interesting one, partly because I miss the symbolic herbs, as stated above; tho Will appears not to care for their inclusion. Why is that, I wonder, Will?

~M~