Hey Tim, I'd sooner hear a ten-minute exposition on the source and history of the Sheep-Shagging Ballad than have to listen to more of the stuff I come across at Open-Mikes (yes, I do go to several!). Mostly badly-tuned-guitar-thrashing, Coldplay/Oasis/James Blunt-girly-voiced-boy-band-wannabes, wailing their interminable and totally unintelligible dirges of teenage angst, which they usually claim to have written on the bus coming to the session, or while taking a leak just before taking the stage! Either that or sad old hippies with bald heads and long grey hair droning on about 'Nights in White Satin' and looking 'Wonderful Tonight'! Yuck! :-)

Hopefully, at MRFC next week, I shall regale you with the full 53-verse version of 'The Cord-Wangler's Delight' in the original Franglais, complete with slide-show, discussion on the accepted translation into English together with the disputed 'alternative' translation, followed by a question-and-answer session during which tea and cakes will be served and a collection taken in aid of Johnny's Retirement Fund For Bewildered Folkies.

Peqace be with you, my son. :-)
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