Thanks for that Richard.
Hugh was a wonderful man; his book on narrative song should be top of the reading list of anybody with an interest in folk song - a man who had no problem in understanding and explaining the word.
There is a very strong case for gathering together Hugh's articles and publishing a selection of them; would make threads like these redundant.
Now I'll go and make myself a strong cup of coffee and try and work out the previous posting - still corpse-wrestling the Jimmy Miller/Ewan McColl battle after all these years I see Cap'n!
Can't work out who has earned your disapproval this time, but not everybody who makes mistakes is an ignoramus - we all do from time to time, and I seem to remember........ ah well!
Jim Carroll