Jack Horntip wrote:

Perhaps the following:

    If It Wasn't for the Houses in Between
    Gus Elen

If that is the song (or even if it isn't :-), we should note that Gus Elen was the performer who made the song famous in the music halls, but the words are by Edgar Bateman and the music by George Le Brun (according to Peter Davison's Songs of The British Music Hall.

There is a full article about it on John Baxter's Folk Song and Music Hall site.