Yes, I did Iceman Cometh. Dyer-Bennet told me this story about The Earl of Morey. He knew the poem and thought it would make a great ballad but he knew of no melody for it. So he never sang it. Then one day, an old lady, a friend of his, asked him to listen to a recording of a Scottish bagpipe band (I'm not sure what you call these groups). One march for bagpipes was called the Earl of Morey March. Dyer-Bennet knew at once that it was the music he was looking for. He went home and worked out the accompaniment for guitar complete with drones. Five days later he performed it in public for the first time (at some well known music festival that I can't remember). Doesn't this story mean that the song is not a folk song; that it was Dyer-Bennet who first matched tune and words and guitar accompaniment?

I knew Dyer-Bennet at Stony Brook from the early 70s until he retired. He was a great story teller. Hence, he wanted to re-tell Homer's stories using the words of Fitzgerald.