Och Malcolm! Well, many a top player scores an own goal some time----
    Here's an odd tidbit; I first became a Barbara Allen enthusiast when I was a kid of ten years of age, learnig it from the singing of the "auld yins". I'm talking now about the late thirties [go on---count on yer fingers!]. When I became heavily involved in Folk clubs and their artistes, I was one who was privileged to cross paths with Nic Jones more than once. Nic sang Barbara Allen in a West -country English accent. I was quite amazed to find it almost identical with the song I learned in Scotland 'way back then.
   George Seto---I had a wee natter with Ali Bain one time and was discussing his "Down Home" T.V. series. He related an experience which he had in Nashville, when he was invited to play in a local venue [a pub, I think]. Ali reckons he sat himself down and began to play reels and jigs from Shetland, Scotland and Ireland--and before he got very far into it he had a half-dozen sitting around him matching note for note! The only difference, apparently, was the name they gave to the tunes. Ali always insisted, incidentally, that the finest fiddlers on Earth DIDN'T come from Ireland, Shetland or any where on that side of the pond; he reckoned that Appalachia deserves that honour.