G'day Pilgrim,

f you read the whole thread, you will find that it is about another song - "properly" called Cock of the Morning (the name of the poem, by the late Dorothy Hewett, on which it is based). I am assured by her son that the possibilities of double entendre, which this name raises (and which was an element of the discussion above) is fully realised and intended!

The thread was started by Wolfgang Hell, who had heard the Irish cover versions of the particular version that Martyn Wyndham-Read took home from Australia - and set to his own tune - unrelated to the Scots tune you mention.

Regards,

Bob Bolton