It's the linguistic nuances that fascinate me, I must say. As indicated by my earlier post, I initially thought the language was distinctly 19th C. - but hadn't come across it in my own reading of songbooks & verse collections of the time. (It might be a little easier to be comprehensive now, with over a decade of online cacheing!). That language, and its survival intact in settings like this, is a long way from the folk processed broadsheet and traditional material we more commonly meet in this context.

Regards