Hi Matt
Thanks for your thoughts
As you suggest, it wouldn't take many tweaks to change the gender of the song - I have considered it in the past, even considering 'Jackie' instead of Sarah Collins - the mid boggled and I decided not to go there (did some electrical work for her and her sister Joan once)!!
I Know there ere alternatives but in the end I decided to leave it where it was.
I was knocked out when I heard Sandra Kerr sing it many years ago and the one thing that impressed me was it's uniqueness as a 'Female Transportation' song.
Women get a rough deal as it is from this male orientated society so why rob them of a good song?
I believe it to be such a good song that I would like to hear it sung around by women.
Jim Carroll