Has anyone found a source for the words of "Whistle daughter, whistle"? The tune has been on my mind since reading this, but as I originally picked it up at a college folk club by ear, and it hasn't been renewed since, most of the words have gone. I can whistle it......

And is there any truth in the claim that the song "The Cutty Wren" was associated with the Peasants' Revolt of 1381? I've been in one of the centres of this for ages, and all I've heard of is "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?" My book of British History in Song suggests the connection. There is such a tradition of the wren hunt being associated with the western part of Britain that Kent and Essex seem less likely to use a song like that. Except that Kent has some odd Celtic hangovers in place-names and in the Hooden Horse of the morris dancers.

And, if Pete M is out there, I've remembered where Lorne Road is. Given the time when you left Dover, and the area, where I knew a few people, if I never met you, I imagine we had at least acquaintances in common. Small world, isn't it. Dover's not the same....I don't go back much.

Penny