I must have had a brain fart there, Mr Red. I suppose it could have been worse, Hulett might have written
" Let's not get all romantic
It's time to sling your load
Across the wild Atlantic
On the Destitution Road"

Just the thing to tell a crofter watching the charred remains of his house and family. But almost preferable to the original, INHO.

Genie, as usual you are spot on. Neil Diamond's
"Songs she sang to me, songs she brang to me ..."
is exactly the sort of thing I had in mind. I don't think there can be a worse rhyme anywhere in the history of song. Of course, that verse in "Play Me" has two other lines rhyming internally with "sang to me" so I guess he felt he had to go for it.

Murray