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‘Nellie Dean’ is an old music hall song:

There’s an old mill by the stream

Nellie Dean.

Where we used to sit and dream

Nellie Dean.

Terry says: “While there are 789456000340 songs beginning ”As I was a-walking…”, and I’ve probably heard all of them, the one I had in mind was ‘Ratcliffe Highway’.”

‘Ratcliffe Highway’ (a version which can be found on the album Liege & Lief by Fairport Convention) starts out:

As I was a-walking along Ratcliffe Highway,

A recruiting party came beating my way,

They enlisted me and treated me till I did not know

And to the Queen’s barracks they forced me to go

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