kat - you're right, there aren't any lyrics on the Vin Garbutt site - I think there used to be a link to some, but not now.

I'll send you a Vin Garbutt lyric, or a file with him singing - but in the meantime here's a verse from one of his songs.

An unfamiliiar freedom now belongs to common man,
It's hard for us to say "No thanks", we're told "You can, you can"
We've even won the right the evil rich men always had,
It seems forbidden fruit is priceless, even when it's bad.
So let's scrutinise the package deals we're offered,
Like anti-nuclear, save the whale, abortion on demand,
We may feel we're so liberal and enlightened,
Like him who to defend his rights did napalm Vietnam."

I can still remember the first time I heard Vin, at Cambridge folk festival nearly 20 years ago. It was in a packed tent. He'd just sung a song, I think it was about San Salvador, and the murder of Archbishop Romero while he was saying Mass.

Then he said "Here's a song about Civil Rights", and he sang "Little Innocents", from which that quote comes. And you could see the jaws drop left and right, and when he'd done, half the crowd jumped to their feet and applauded, and half the crowd sat on their hands. And there was no way you could tell looking at them which of us would do which.

I think Vin is the bravest singer I've ever come across, and the most honest, and it's cost him an enormous amount, in money and other things.