I ONLY do my own stuff on CDs.
It took me a while to write Jed Marum's Sweet Ellen Joyce, and Mike Campbell's Wilderness Letters, as well as Alastair McGillivray's Kitty Bawn O'Brien, and Robert Burns's Ae Fond Kiss, but I think I nailed them.
Much less difficult for me was writing Tommy Sands' When The Boys Come Rolling Home, and Eric Bogle's The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, not to mention Chuck Barr's Let The Music Take You Home.
Writing Aengus Finnan's O'Shaughnessy's Lament and Chuck Rogers' Sons Of Molly presented a special challenge, but with a bottle of Bushmills and a sharp no. 2 pencil, I did it.
And it's such fun introducing them in shows: " Here's a Tommy Makem song I wrote - The Town Of Ballybay."

Seamus