'Blue Eyed Mountain Queen'

Cheers, Jim. Clive's note to the song was a love song from the peaceful valley of Glencolumkille in County Donegal nestling beneath the mountain of Slieve League and facing out to the Atlantic Ocean.

Just because the thread failed it doesn't change the way things are with respect of Folk Song, or indeed with the wider interests of the Folk Scene as a whole - Mudcat included. As I said above ...if 80%+ of what is being sung in the name of folk isn't folk song according to an orthodox reading of the 1954 Definition then something must be wrong somewhere. And by wrong, I don't mean with the folk scene!

As for folk, or another other musical activism:

Like so many of you I've got my doubts about
How much to contribute to the already rich
And God knows how long can I pretend music's more
relevant than fighting for a socialist world

(Gloria Gloom - Robert Wyatt)