Greg, that matches up with what the author has written. She is usually pretty good with her references, even said Islay was named after a goddess Ila who used the islands as steppting stone to come over from Ireland. Ah...if you were unsuccessful, then ya aren't guilty, eh?*bg*
McCrumb uses trad music references in all of her books which take place in Appalachia. She gives her family background at the beginning of one of them and she is the genuine article, in being a legitimate descendant of Scots, etc. However, in this latest book, she has one character talking about Lark in the morning being a relatively obscure, mostly unknown trad song! I think I'll write to her and offer my research services and give the Mudcat a cut! Otherwise, I always enjoy her novels. (Oh, yeah, and it supposedly doesn't have any words to it. I suspect she is just using it for an artifice, so that the main character, named "Lark" will be able to suit the words to the situation.)