The leader or 'Captain,' John Stocker, said that the song was an established favourite with the lead miners of Cornwall and Devonshire, and was always sung on the pay-days, and at the wakes; and that his grandfather, who died thirty years before, at the age of a hundred years, used to sing the song, and say that it was very old."
Captain John Stocker stated that the song has been a beloved tradition among lead miners in Cornwall and Devonshire, often performed on paydays and at social events; he also shared that his late grandfather used to sing the song and claimed it had been passed down for generations.