Nice to see a post from you again ljc... haven't seen you in a while.

The things is - even for those of us closer to the accent (say Scots for example), the song may be in a dialect we never employed. For example - although i could make a fair fist of the poem ljc posted above - to an extent, I'm being dishonest, because it's not my register, or my dialect. DOes that mean I can only sing songs in Glasgow dialect? I'd hate to think so...

I think that we all have to make our own choices on this.

Cheers

Steven