Catfeet - obviously faster than my fingers...

Thanks for the obvious correction to the chorus first line. I think the first verse first line should be

Well it happened up in Hartlepool...

but Vin's accent is pretty difficult.

The monkey legend is fascinating, although I was told by a local Hartlepool historian many years ago that there is no proof of the hanged object being an ape - it is as likely to have been a local smuggler from the Monkey gang who were apparently notorious wreckers along the north east coast in Napoleonic times.

Cheers

Rick.