Strangely enough this came out very soon after Stan Rogers "Northwest Passage" (see the first post above). Stan had sung me his song soon after he had written it, and I remember listening to the Albion Band doing Wolfe at the Bracknell Festival, not too long after Stan had died. I was practically knocked over by the similarity, both tune and text motifs. I believe Hutchings later called it just one of those coincidences, great minds sometimes follow the same paths or some such rubbish, but he claimed never to have heard Stan's song.