Roused from my (now) customary torpor by Steve Gardham I have to admit that I know less than he does about possible origins for 'I'm a Vagabond'. It's a long time since I last saw the movie, Champagne Charlie, but if there is any chance (which I am inclined to doubt) that this is a Leybourne song, the authority to be consulted is Chris Beeching, now resident in Crete, the author of 'The Heaviest of Swells' 2011, a monumental biography of Leybourne. Nowhere in the book does he mention a song with even a vaguely similar name, but as it is only Vol.1, there is, maybe, a faint possibility.

'Even the title song wasn't exactly as performed by Leybourne'. I can, at least, confim that. The second line of the chorus was amended in the film to 'Champagne drinking is my game'.

Sorry. Lots of words. Not much use.