From Betty Redshaw
Recorded by Peter Kennedy, West Wickham, Kent, 1954
The Bald-Headed End of the Broom (Songs of Uneasy Wedlock), Folktracks FTX-019; Peter Kennedy, Folksongs of Britain and Ireland, Cassell, 1975
Kennedy noted that the song had been “learned from her sailor grandfather whose family lived alongside the River Thames at Gravesend in Kent. He kept a notebook of all the old songs and shanties he heard from the sailors who came into the London docks”