Martin, I do now have the lyrics in print after purchasing Joe Heaney's "The Road From Connemara" CDs. In the CD notes, the lyrics have some comments by Joe, but nothing that revealed the author. It does have Roud 14056 next to the title. I don't know if that is different than the Roud # in the interview - haven't compared it to the web site we discussed in another thread that includes parts of the interview.

Alice Flynn