I too have lost count of the times I've referred to the origins of The Recruited Collier (and I imagine Malcolm Douglas is even more pissed off).

It's useless to explain to some the existence of Jenny's Complaint, a C18 poem about a ploughboy or to R. Anderson's Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect (1808). It used to be 'common knowledge' that Anne Briggs wrote the song. Recently. I've been berated in a very nasty way by a kRusby fan who just refuses to believe that she didn't write it herself. I find it very strange that these people are incapable of hitting just a few keys and engaging in very basic research.

Yeah, anything's 'good enough for f*lk'.

Actually, no it isn't.