The irony of The Hungry Child is that the person the Young Tradition thought had written it had in fact just translated a (genuine) traditional song from German into English; she may perhaps have made up her own tune. The "folk drag" Heather Wood referred to was actually closer to being right than she was. Shows the perils of making assumptions about people and about traditional music, perhaps; as well as trying to be too clever.

Details: Lyr Req: MOTHER I'M HUNGRY

Still, they were very young; and most of us thought at that age that we knew it all.