Keri Davies, the soon-to-be-departed Archers scriptwriter, has claimed ownership of these two; the clicky will take you to the full lyrics of both. He acknowledges the 'Rambleaway' borrowing - a point to Steve G.

Keri D's obviously listened to a few traditional songs, but I don't think he's really got the feel for them. The Fair Maid of Edgeley, for instance, turns out not to be a "star-crossed lovers" story at all, but more a case of "she pined away and died - the idiot, she should have found someone else instead". Can't think of anything like that in the tradition, although I'll probably remember something really well-known in five minutes' time.

Keri Davies shares one distinction with Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe and Chris Difford - an author credit on . Discogs doesn't know about it, but it did come up with this earlier incarnation of Eddie Grundy singing something called "Lambs to the Slaughter" in 1980. The actor (who joined The Archers in 1979) would have been 23 at this point & appears to have been going for an image that was less comedy-based and more... um.