PS - Regarding images & folk songs in general; I'm currently working on a number of things I was drawn to by image resonance alone, including Cob-a-Coaling (...up a ladder, down a wall / a cob a coal will save us all...), Leg of a Mallard (...I've ate and I've ate and what have I ate? I've eaten the leg of a mallard - leg and leg, thigh and thigh, foot and foot, toe and toe, toe nibbins and all - the beautiful leg of a mallard...) and The Sheep Stealer (...the children will pull the skin from the ewe...). The resonance is entirely subjective; these foolish things as might thrill me in the balls and make me glad to be not only alive, but receptive to such imagery as can only ever be objectively traditional. I get the same thing when I look at old misericords; in the parish church at Whalley at the weekend we came across This - the text of which reads Whoso melles him of that al men dos, het hym cum hier and shoe the ghos (whoever meddles in the ways of man, let him come here and shoe the goose). Maybe there's a lesson in that somewhere...