Malcolm, it was some time ago, but on the other thread you commented: "It's a pity, in some ways, that people feel the need to bowdlerise old songs, which should be considered in context and not as if they had been written this week. If they don't like what a song says, perhaps they just shouldn't sing it"

Do you still feel the same way about this? I suppose there's a fine line between sanitising a song and tweaking it a little. Isn't the latter what the folk process is all about? There are traditional hunt songs in which the fox gets away. I'm not criticising your opinion, I think it's valid. Of course it'd be ridiculous if people starting changing songs so that Admiral Benbow lives happily ever after!

Actually, I think I've just hit upon an idea. A bowdlerised folk album! Happy endings all round. The judged looked over his left shoulder and said "you're just in the nick of time, your Geordie's just been reprieved".

This time next year I'll be a millionaire