Seeing as this thread has been revived, I'll throw in one comment.

When I first heard this song (I forget who sung it) it was with a chorus of Burstow's last four lines:
"What a sad heart had poor Boney
To take up instead of a crown
A canter for Brussels and Paris
Lamenting the eighteenth of June."
i.e. instead of taking up a crown he took up a canter to Paris.

When I recently acquired and listened to the Frank Harte double-CD, it seemed to me that his version of the chorus:
"And what a sad heart had poor Boney
(For) to take up instead of a crown
And to canter from Brussels to Paris
Lamenting the eighteenth of June."
doesn't make sense.

But I must add that this is a minor whinge about what is on the whole an absolutely set of recordings.

Richard