Dear Joe. When I sing a song at my Captain's Bar in Edingburgh I always like to tell the story of how i heard it for the first time and sing the song. When I sing traditional songs I sometimes change the words. When I had my band Bravehearts sometimes we would fight about the songs if the tune is being used for other songs one example falls when my friend wanted to sing the Hearts song and it was not a good song to sing. I review and collect a lot of songs from recordings by the singers who recorded them first or near enough. I like discussing the the 18th and 19th century a lot and it gives me thought about how we know them. I know myself it is not easy to write a straightforward folk song .