A.M. wrote: I still think Tommy Wood's likely construction of this song around 1970 is worth an article in a folklore or music journal, given its fifteen minutes of fame in 2021.

There will, at least, be extensive notes in the next release of the Traditional Ballad Index. But I still consider this an unsolved mystery. The assumption that the Reed book was it because it had the right characteristics was weak.... The Forster book mentioned at least one book of creative works by sailors. That might be another prospect. But I want to finish checking Forster before I do any more hunting.