Millions of people really like Kathleen Ferrier singing that song. Why is anything that is accessible to non card carrying folkies is so sick making.

Judged from how often it appeared on two way family favourites - the song seemed to have significance to a lot of service personnel who were separated from family and home.

That recording of the unusual contralto voice was something to stop you in your tracks, it wound its way into the national psyche for many years.

Do you really see a time when the street will be thronged with people singing Lovely Joan or All Things are Quite silent? When is folk music going to meet the folk?