It IS a wonderful resource, and nobody is blaming anybody here. People take the trouble to post in lyrics, and they should be encouraged to do so.

Almost all of the errors I have noticed arise from lyrics which have obviously been transcribed from a recording, and the sender has misheard what the singer is actually singing. The "Caledonia " example above is a case in point. More will come to light in the near future.

The most bizarre case of misheard lyrics, IMHO (and nothing to do with the DT) happened in Edinburgh some years ago, when a kenspeckle singer was singing "Ringsend Rose", and sang the phrase "street urchin's grin" as "straight arrow thin". When tackled about this, he simply shrugged "Well, that's the way I learnt it". How much other nonsense is being disseminated this way, through faulty hearing?

Ringsend Rose is not a traditional song, I grant you, but there are traditional songs which have nonsensical lyrics, almost certainly the result of the "folk process" being applied hundreds of years ago. Don't even get me started on "Carrickfergus" .....

Murray