Youtube served me this:
OK, as always, Ms. Simone is excellent. But that tune, surely no, that’s not original. Some old gospel, right? Summat.
Ah, this:
From 45 seconds in. Ah, yes us oldies all do recognise that, don’t we?
Still think that melody and chord structure are likely to be older and more traditional but…..
I think I recall Barry at one point saying he’d had so many people asking that here was the man to play it. Which he did.
Ooo, ooo, I know that tune…
When I was a lad
…I served a term
As office boy
…to an attorney’s firm
I cleaned the windows
…and I swept the floor
And I polished up the handle
…of the big front door
I polished up that handle
…so carefully
that now I am the ruler
…of the queen’s navy
Its that bowed double bass, that’s weird to hear.
Piano music for this was used as the theme for the Film movie review programme on BBC TV presented by the ascerbic Barry Norman.
“I think I recall Barry at one point saying he’d had so many people asking”
Ahem