This is one of the reasons I became a Mudcat member.
When I heard Martin Carthy sing this song in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it was so long ago that there was no Internet; I was a graduate student then. And since Carthy cannily did not introduce the song, but just launched right into it a cappella and then went right on to the next one, apart from the hilarity of hearing it I was bursting to know what the heck I had just heard.
And there was nobody I could ask. Well, actually, I went backstage to ask, but I took too long getting back there. By the time I got through the door, Carthy was sitting for an interview with somebody, and no longer talking to members of the public; and there were people standing between me and Carthy looking daggers at anybody who might dare to interrupt. Even though I spoke up at one point, I was disregarded, and I went home none the wiser.
But I suppose I would have disregarded the song itself if my curiosity had not been piqued?

To have a place where I can come and find threads and posts about the very song that drove me nuts way back then, is indescribably satisfying.