G'day again dbranno,

I'm not quibbling about the inevitable fact that songs will change to suit the time, place, person and audience of their performance. I just happened to open the digitrad version of Factory Lad ... and it seemed to me that quite a lot of change had taken place ... in other times and places than my personal experience. I'm taking it as a atarting point that the gulf between English and American is vast ... as well as hard to nail down.

Because I had my acquired version from listening to Colin Dryden quite a few times around the Sydney scene of the day ... and singing in my local ambient over the decades ... I thought it worth posting - as something that stays a lot closer to Colin's original.

Chris Kempster's recollection ... posted on Labour Songs reinforced my feeling that my memory was about as close as "folk music" runs. It doesn't chew up too much of the ozone layer to post a set of lyrics that I hope is much closer to the original than the one on the DT.

Regards,

Bob Bolton