well i can appreciate some people have real difficulty in learning songs. and if they need crib sheets fair enough - no one would want their voices to be stilled, I hope.

But breathes there a soul so dull, who doesn't give an inward sigh of grief when he hears the words - I wrote this, this afternoon and I might get it wrong; or I haven't sung this one for twenty years but I was thinking when I was driving here, I' d like to sing it tonite its just the words and tune I've forgotten: and that old chestnut - I just got my guitar out after twenty years this afternoon, so I AM sorry if its not in tune, but I don't pretend to be an expert; or I got these uillean pipes off e bay last week - look they're new in the box and they're dead easy.......

I mean seriously sometimes you can feel the whole room mentally reaching for the machine guns. The Americans are so brave letting everyone have access to firearms.