Hi again Allan

I've just seen your most recent post, which you posted while I was writing my previous post.

Well assuming that the tune that McKellar et al sing The Braes to is its original tune, I wonder how it evolved into The Wild Mountain Thyme?

Interestingly, although Francis McPeake is generally credited as having written WMT (albeit somewhat plagiarised from TBOB), in the interview you linked to he takes no credit at all for having written it, and says he thinks it's a traditional folk song - which begs the questions of 1) why he copyrighted it, 2) why at least one of his close relatives have posted in past mudcat threads and said that he did indeed write it, and 3) why he has apparently said in other interviews that he first heard it in Scotland and adapted it.

Many thanks again for linking to that interview - it was fascinating to hear the man.

Dave