It doesn't all go in Mick Jagger's bank account you know.

Keef gets a cut too....

Come to think of it, the pittance I get is mainly for rock music but a very very small slice is for folk songs. I intend to cut and paste Jim's reasoning into my next tax return. If it's music of the people, I don't have to pay tax on it....

(An aside. Mysongbook.de seems to have two of my songs listed as traditional, which is somewhat flattering. It also appears Iain Mackintosh used to sing them, which I certainly didn't know and if he were still around, I would write and say how honoured I am. They are folk songs on a different level. I'm happy for them to become "traditional.")