Maryrrf, agree. This song needs a broken-down grown-up. I'm available. / MediocreShepherd: LOL, "Jeannie in the Bottle" indeed. And here I always thought she was just plain old Nancy Whiskey. Re your stories, here's mine of right place, wrong song. When I was a young man in me prime I went into a pub in Dungarvan, made new acquaintances, and after some number of pints, proposed a particular rebel song. Now I'll be damned if I'm sure which one it was any more (this was 25 years ago OK?), but whichever, I was quietly & firmly advised by one of my new buddies---"Benny O'Brien From Belfast" was his name, he said---that "No, ye don't want to be singin' that one in here." Puzzled, I relented. I *think* it was a question of the Free-State Treaty Troubles: which side are you on, which side are you on? My song, doubtless from the de Valera republican side of the civil war (and meself with NO idea what the Hell I was singin' about), evidently wasn't quite right for the venue. So naive (and American) of me. Thank God fer Benny O'Brien From Belfast, he saved my ignorant arse. Better I should have sung Carrickfergus. (Benny's repertoire ran heavily to Al Jolson btw!) But I'll sing no more, till I get a drink.