In about 1962 I was in the Birtley Folk Club County Durham England, the home of the Elliot family, when the guest singers were the Mc Peak family from Northern Ireland and old Francis Mc Peak said, as he introduced Wild Mountain Thyme, that he had written it. Jack Elliot (not rambling Jack, stumbling Jack) said there and then that this song would be sung at the end of every folk club session in Birtley and as far as I know it always has been. Cheers Bill