From “an old seaman”
Collected by Derek Sarjeant in a Chatham pub
Sing 7:4 (Jan/Feb 1963) p.44
When printed in Sing, the accompanying note said “Collected by Derek Sarjeant in a Chatham pub, the tune is surely one of the most persistent found in oral tradition. And so is much of the lyric too”.
Derek Serjeant recorded this song on his Man of Kent EP (Oak, 1963), where the liner notes say “Derek collected this song from an old seaman in one of the Medway Towns”.
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