I saw the Battlefield Band on tour in Ireland in the Tom McHale folk club in Athlone, Ireland around the late 70s. I also have the LP of the band called At the Front with Pat singing the Bachelor. It was recordred in 1978. They learned it from Jimmy Crowley who they think learned it from Len Graham. They also heard it in Bolgers Hotel at the Tullamore folk club. Tom Guinan, also known as Jagger Guinan is a great bouzouki player from Clonfanlagh near Clonmacnoise, also in the middle of Ireland. He is currently living in Germany. He was a regular performer in the folk scene in the midlands, at the Tom McHale folk club etc and later in Dublin. It is a song that is often heard in these regions down the years.