I, too, have always loved the opening and closing tune bookending Steeleye Span's "Weaver and the Factory Maid." It is very close to a tune a friend recorded for me many years ago, off of a De Danann album. I just found out the name of the tune. It's on their "A Jacket of Batteries" album.The song is "Taim I Mo Shul" and is either sung in Scots or Irish Gaelic. The two tunes are so similar that I'm sure they are connected. Does anyone know if this is true?