i watched a show cauled the people's ceildh it was a document of a show made in 1951. this was the start of the folk revival. the singers were john straken and jimmy mcbeath and others. alan lomax was scheduled to take them to the usa. not all of them went. the songs they sung on that night out were written by scots writers from the 19th century that were set to tunes from other parts of the world richard mackay is a great format on writing new words to tunes from other countries and taking them to scotland. in 1862 he wrote his best non songs the road and the miles to dundee and tramps and hawkers. watching the alan lomax podcast are very good to watch cos it talks about the usa folk scene when scotland got in to folk seen alan lomax travelled to england and ireland and that was the start of folk music. the road to dundee is very close to the unfortunate rake. in 1963 bob dylan wrote a song cauled redwing gold. when he wrote this he said he liked the tune of streets of laredp but wanted to do notes up to a new song and it was not easy for him to do. i sung the song redwing gold at the captains bar as pete seeger's where have all the flours gone. thank you from joe.