G'day Alan Francis,

Most of the favourite Sydney Carter songs have been posted to the Mudcat (often by me...) and were in the Digital Tradition. However, much as Sydney, himself, was very generous with his songs and freely shared them, he has died ... and the new owners of Galliard, publishers of his song books, Stainer & Bell (a made-up name ... so you can't go and nag Mr Stainer or Mr Bell!) have decided they are on a nice little earner ... and demand any mention of his songs to be removed.

This just results in lots of groups assuming his work is as "traditional" as it sounds - so they don't even get thos royalties ... let alone the ones they tried to get from the Oirish sance show, for the tune of Lord of the Dance ... which Sydney freely acknowledged as not being composed by him!

Anyway, copy the lyrics smartly ... they may not be here after S & B hear about this thread.

Regards,

Bob