... or 'Do You Know Any Metallica?'

"Give us a good old Drinking Song", they say
"Do you know that 'Whiskey in The Jar' is a song about a chick who rings up the Cops on her boyfriend, setting in motion a chain of events which culminates in his execution, by hanging?", I tell them "You shall wrest that song from my cold, dead vocal chords. Here's a song about a guy who walks it from Galway to Dublin (before Ryanair introduced the Shuttle), who put up with all manner of abuse, before going over to England, where he bate up a load of Brits who tried to take the piss out of him"

'The Rocky Road' never tends to sound the same after....

But such is the lot of Folk Artist.

I dipped my bucket again, recently. Considering that Joseph Quentin Public believes that 'The Fairytale of New York' is just hunky dory if sang as if you're having a conversation with yerself, or that 'Duelling Banjos' on one mandolin recreates the outback, outhouse mood to a 'T', well then I do have a few thous of a tolerance, then, don't I?
Few thousand miles, of a tolerance in some cases.

Anyway, long Rizlas at the ready again, folks, The Douwe Egberts is perc-ing away, and I have a blue Clicky thing here somewhere....

Ahhh, here it is....

Clickety Click

B.