John Ball from Urban Navigators by duck pond sailors

We were taught this song by a drunken mandolin player in The Steam Packet. It turns out to be something of a folk standard, and not as venerable as it sounds having been written in 1981 by the great Sydney Carter to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Peasant’s Revolt.
“When Adam dalf and Eve span, Wo was thanne a gentleman?”

We are a group of lads that learn and sing traditional sea shanties and the odd Sussex folk song.
We often sing them whilst drinking in local ale houses and have no aim other than singing well and drinking better.
We are based on the South Coast of England where the sun shines and the beards hang low.