Well, the choices so far just go to show how people's tastes can differ. Tim O'Brien played it at Bury a couple of weeks ago, and very good it was too - though I also like Tommy Jarrell's.

Has anyone ever come across the following words to this song (obviously the first two lines are standard)? Cecil Sharp collected them in North Carolina 100 years ago:

I'll tune up my fiddle and rosin my bow
And I'll make myself welcome wherever I go
And if ever I come back any more, it will be in the Spring
To see the waters gliding and the nightingales sing
[low section]
Hush up, Pretty Polly, I'll let you alone
I'll never quite drinking while brandy's so low.