Messmate-

Good lord. What mean-spirited drivel. I'm amazed that someone would take the trouble of posting this, and that someone else, yourself, would feel the need to explain it in so such detail. Clearly, years of back-biting, envy, and vindictiveness have gone into this ballad.

I suspect you wrote a good part of it.

I'd sure think twice before setting foot in any folk club in Melbourne.

Charley Noble, safe in Maine