Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Returning to Joe Offer's collection today. This one was published in the BBC programme "Singing Together" in Spring 1976.
The following notes appear with the song in the collection:
The amended arrangement seems to have been broadcast regularly on Canadian radio. Kenneth Peacock got two further versions in 1959; one of the singers remarked that the "air is just like that man sings on the radio". (Peacock, Songs of the Newfoundland Outports, Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, 1965, III, 711-714).