Thank you, Ed. That's the tune I was talking about although I've never come across those words. And I see from the note at the end of your posting that it was indeed Stanley Holloway who sang the song I remembered although my false memeory still insists that it wasn't. I think my problem is that I associate him with the over-the-top cockney of "My Fair Lady" and the song I recall was in more middle-class accent. But I wonder, did the music hall get the tune form the folk tradition or was it the other way about?