I don't think that anyone mentioned that the words were set to music by the late Peter Bellamy. When I first heard Charley Yarwood sing it (with Tom and Barabara Brown as Regalia) I was sure that it was a Cornish Song - it had the right lilt. It was only flicking through my copy of "The Complete Works of Kipling" that I found out where it came from - It's actually set on the Kent/Sussex border. "Old Goodman" is suppose to refer to the Goodwin Sands.