Valmai and EKanne (I wish you'd become a member, E!-it would make 'conversation' easier)

You are both too far away from me for me to benefit from your ballad workshops; I would love to attend!

I do think that each of us has 'our' version of a ballad, which may vary only slightly from the original, perhaps because we have picked it up from another singer, or perhaps even because we've never heard it sung. In some cases for me, it is because a verse I didn't know but heard someone else sing made the story much clearer to me.