Bill D and DMcG - have you ever heard an English person try to sing in Scots? It sounds bloody silly. Even when Ewan MacColl tried to sing in the Scots which he didn't use in eveyday speech it sounded forced. We should, I think, sing in our real accent unless we're a good imitator - and even that's dodgy. The important thing about a song is to communicate. How daft would it be if I sang something I didn't understand myself? If I don't know what a fail dyke and hause-bane are then neither will a section of my audience. After all, when songs travelled so did the dialect and therefore some of the words. But now we're onto a whole new subject.