Guest,Observer - were you the original 'guest' poster (with incorrect words) in August 2005?
Perhaps not - I assume the reason Jim McLean responded was to correct the words of his song, written over 50 years ago in the 1960s. This was the era of protest songs, Ding Ding Dollar, Scottish Breakaway and the like. Many of them were produced in a collective, others dashed of quickly in time for a march.....some would become classics, pass 'into the tradition' - as a good number of Jim's songs have! You also have to remember that lots of these songwriters were young, perhaps still honing their craft?

- I am interested in knowing how many songs YOU have composed, Observer? Since you have taken it upon yourself to be so judgemental about another person in an open forum? Rude, patronising and un-necessary in my opinion......