The words in the DT are not as singable as mine: they need the addition of a few "well,.."'s, etc. The tune is known to everyone, but no-one in my house can think of its title! It's close to "Mary had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell,..." etc. A set of words is in "The Common Muse" (V. de Sola Pinto & A.E. Rodway (Penguin, c. 1965) wherein I see that Mr. Harry Pollit has given permission for the song to be printed, titled "H___y P_____tt." I've always sung the last line of the last verse as "if you want to be a Stalinist, you'll have to go to hell." Common Muse has "Communist". I can't tell you much about Harry, just that he was front and centre in the British CP for many years, and was the author of "How to Win the Peace" (1944) and "Looking Ahead" (1947).

Jon Bartlett