Of course, the reason why a rifleman might sing "over the hills and far away" to a group of kids, given the rather racy lyics we've seen above about whores and wars, is that by the Napoleonic wars it was ALSO a children's song and nursery rhyme about "Tom, Tom the Piper's son." This is number 508 in the Oxford Book of Nursery Rhymes."

But if Richard B is right, this ain't the song John Tams sang anyhow...

Steve