I'm giving this a refresh in a last ditch effort to try to flush out someone who has the tune available in electronic form.

I tried transcribing it last night and could not get my head around it at all. First off, I couldn't get get my mandolin to sound in tune with the tape of the tune which I have ... could just be that my machine was running slightly faster or slower than the machine on which it was taped?

And then just couldn't figure out what was happening in the fourth and fifth bars. And had to give up ... (principally cos my missus was going nuts after hearing me repeat three bars over and over again, then attempting countless variations of the next two. Divorces have been sought on much weaker ground!)

Which makes me wonder. Does the fact that there is so much material available to us in abc and other formats mean that we can no longer play by ear as well as previously? I know that this holds true for me ... I didn't have the world's best ear. But it was my primary means of learning tunes. Now, I'm afraid the availability of abcs means that I rarely learn tunes in this way!