Thread drift ALERT! I have noticed that a lot of American cowboy/Civil War era songs are derived from originally Irish melodies, i.e. "When the Work's All Done Next Fall" is "Going Back to Miltown", "Buttermilk Hill" ois "Suil Arun (Shule Aroon)", etc. I have often thought about doing something with this.......a derivitive type song book, but I will prob'ly need several lives just to finish the things I have started.