Now, on topic, Apart from the excellent Birmingham Sunday, which I once tried to to add to my repertoire, but couldn't sing because I choked up every time, I know no songs about either Birmingham event.

Perhaps the time has come for some sensitive songsmith to try one for the UK bombing, but I feel that the difficulty would be in finding a focus for the story.

Birmingham Sunday works so well because it is about four identifiable children, which catches the listener on a gut level, and pulls at the instinctive protective instincts that all mammals seem to have toward the very young.

Don T.