Edith Fowke - A Sampling of Bawdy Ballads from Ontario - The second Ontario singer who contributed some unusual bawdy songs is Tom Brandon, a young man born in 1929, who spent a number of years working in lumber-camps and on lake boats before taking a job with the Canadian Pacific Railway. Several songs describe the amorous adventures of cobblers and the sexual symbolism of their tools, but the only other version of this particular one I have located comes from the fine English traditional singer, Harry Cox (on Caedmon TG 1143). Of the five stanzas he sings, 1, 2, and 5 correspond roughly to 1, 3, and 4 of Tom's version.