I getcha, greg. I wasn't being difficult, and I hope you didn't take it that way. It just seems to me that the song has much more of an African root, with touches of various American influences. It can be said that those influences come from several European cultures, to be sure. But I don't see it anyway related, as I do with many Irish songs, for example, whose roots lie in English folk, and vice versa.

As I said, this is an interesting thread.

Mick