Interesting, Malcolm.

I don't know anything about Harry Clifton or his writing ability, but the style of this song is very diffreent from Kangaroo. I can imagine Kangaroo being written by a London Music hall entertainer, but this has a totally different feel: not only because I hear Paddy Tunney singing it, but looking at the internal rhyming, turn of phrase and so on. Did Harry Clifton come from an Irish family perhaps?