The Count was a great man, and a lovely singer, and the Irish Tenor heritage is a splendid one and long may it continue - but the smooth beauty of the voice can get in the way of the song for me, and that's a personal idiosyncrasy.

But the world isn't divided between Tenors and guitar-twanging warblers. For one thing there's the Sean Nos tradition, and that's where this song fits most satisfactorily for me. Both these songs in fact.