Jim - a word in your shell-like if I may...

In expressing my opinions in this, or any other matter, I so so without recourse to personal insults, or personal comments per se (unless sorry provoked). Why then in responding to what I say you attack me with personal invective?

Please, stick to the discussion, huh? Keep the personal stuff to yourself.

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Oversung? My God! There's an over statement! I haven't heard the new version (and hope I never do) but... imagine... this day... there are people out there - a lot of people - more people than there ever will be Folkies - who are hearing this thing for the first time. Imagine that....

Naturally feel the same way about The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, but without it we wouldn't have had Ron Baxter's masterful Who'll Go to Morecambe? - which is less a parody than am alchemical transfiguration of something base into pure gold.

The reality is, we live in world where shit happens : one of the civilian horrors of war are the anti-war songs. As good a reason as any to stay out of folk clubs in November I'd say!