I think I apologised to almost all on this thread some time back for leaving the subject?
I think all I said a while ago was that I thought the version current in Scotland in the sixties had come from Sheena Wellington's grandma and a mild observation that FOR ME, a song's origins, while valuable and maybe interesting, would not be important in my choice of a song!

This is a personal view, and it doesn't seem unreasonable to me, and how Ewan MacColl became part of it, I really don't understand.

I certainly don't have the extreme views on the man credited to me by JC, and I've tried to explain that to him without success.

So I have no interest in further argument, and as previously suggested at least twice,please carry on discussing what is a grand song in all of its versions....