Hello All,
          for the benefit of those who know me I must explain how I
come to be using a computer. The answer is necessity,at the back
end of last year I received a reminder from the Revenue & Customs
that as from April next they will not accept written VAT returns
all returns from then have to be on-line. I was therefore forced to
aquire a computer & am in the procces of teaching myself how to
use it.The fact that I am able to post on this thread shows the
progress being made.
Anent the ballad "Achnahie Gordon" I have been singing this for
more years than I care to remember. Certainly in public since the
1950s, in view of the number of portable tape recorders in use
since that time could Mr Jones have heard a recording of this
ballad? I doubt this & as I have never heard him singing this I
leave it to the musically gifted among you to compare the
traditional tune, as sung by me,to that composed by him.{I use the
term traditional as it is now well over a hundred years since my
gutcher learned it}
Thanks to all who remember me singing this ballad long before Mr
Jones composed a tune to the words.
In the early sixties my,then,new wife would instruct me before
appearing in company that I must not sing "that song" {A>G}
suffice to say that after near fifty years she has learned to
live with the auld ballads.
                            Yours,                              
                                  Joe.
   P.S.   When Mike recorded me neither he nor I realised I was ill
          I collapsed three days later with a blood clot & spent the
          next six weeks flat on my back in hospital.