All I can say is a big thank you. Very kind of you, Guest DK, to take the time to produce your message.

It was a tune my nanny, in Galway, used to sing. It has a lovely flat note; typical of Conamara in the tune I recall (which Darach OC naturally drops in his style when you listen). I wanted to find it because I need a couple more slow songs, in Irish, for the All Britain Fleadh at the end of next month and this one is a pleasure to sing - the writer is singing away to himself about Maire, as you do. A song with a bit of abandon in it is the best to sing - with these lyrical songs, the place you go to when you sing seems to come across. I'll have some good memories of 30 years ago in my head, anyway.

So if you're near by Preston, Lancs, UK at the end of June and I win - well I owe you a glass. :) Thanks again, Wes.