GN,Thanks for the idea. You might be right, I won't know for a good while yet. The chap that I'm asking for can only be contacted by letter, or by travelling to see him which I don't plan to do in the forseeable future, so I'm going to gather as many ideas as I can within the next few weeks and send them to him together, hopefully with tunes.

I'd not heard of that version of the 'white cockade', only the 'he advanced me' version which gets sung a lot here, so thanks for pointing me to a new song.

Liz