Belated attempt at clarification of 8-year-old confusion. The 'Jacqui' ref'd a few posts back would presumably have been the one who was half of Jacqui & Bridie who ran another Liverpool folk club around same time as The Spinners --

see Liverpool Echo article "Remembering 50 years of Jacqui and Bridie's folk club"

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/remembering-50-years-jacqui-bridies-3385531

I remember this song much sung around the London clubs late·50s-early·60s; brought over by Peggy Seeger I think; who as pointed out just above by Charley Noble, had recorded it on Folkways.

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