Sorry Tug the Cox I got signed as "guest" whilst giving out about Where do you go to my lovely   What I said I probably said 40 years ago too.   Schmoltz does not improve with age . I was attending Folk clubs back then and there were lots of acts regularly appearing in folk clubs with and without accordions who had well constructed meaningful songs to sing and play that are never heard now, more's the pity, it's a shame that shite like that song will never die
It has always sounded to me that someone who had only a tenuous grasp of the English language an iffy understanding of music , a copy of a "Write your own Folksong" book and a friend in a record company was behind it. On the basis of what I have read above I remain to be convinced otherwise.
Murray MacLeod    I think that may have been Matt McGinn

Throw the other shite to Otway http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPPm7CVP6Bk