Um, I don't think I'm wrong - I assume you're referring to "a charge that, as I recall, Helen Creighton casts doubt on ... " - that was a bit of a digression, which was what I intended to indicate by following it with the expression "More to the point ... "

One of these days I'll have to try out that DT.

What I have always found interesting in that song is the writer's comment at the end to the effect that he hopes he never again has to write about such a sorrowful event - the implied obligation on his part to provide a song on such a significant occasion to the community ... The expression of racial antagonism I have always found a little sad.