G'day again Jim McLean,

You are, of course, right in pointing to the Scots immigration in many new coutries (and we'll stop stirring the Wearing o' the Green pot ...). The early keenness for Craigielea in Australian circles is clearly traceable to Gov. Macquarie ... and more so, to his wife who loved the song/tune and made sure Lachlan supplied the music to the Marine Corps bands.

One problem in Australian folk circles (and we are not on our Pat Malone) is that so many people ... and bands - think the Irish wrote everything and ignore the Scots ... and the English ... and the Welsh ... and the Germans ... and the Poles ... and the Dutch ... and the the rest of European settlement in the this country.

(As for the people who were here for 60,000 years before all this ... who?)

Regard(les)s,

Bob Bolton