so how did you learn how it goes IB?

Since you ask, I've known the song since I first started going to folk clubs around 1976 via the singing of countless floor singers; also we used to sing a lot of the verses ourselves around the streets ourselves whilst guising for Bonfire Night. I confess that I've never actually heard the Watersons' version though, not first hand at any rate...

And have you thought of having another try at uni or other adult education?...seems to me you could do with it.

Further evidence, if any were needed, of your general small-minded shit-headedness. And to think I've been giving you the benefit of the doubt all these years; even going to far as to speak out in your defence. No such doubts now anyway, Wavy - so it's nice to see your true colours at last.

And your next post about buying a plastic recorder again shows how wildly changeable your thinking is - look back at what you posted about suchlike just a few weeks ago.

See my post 21 Oct 08 - 05:53 AM? Remember? The one that sparked off the entire Engrish Frute controversy?* Otherwise, show me a single word I've written about plastic recorders that is inconsistent with me owning and playing them. I may have pointed out the incongruities of you calling a plastic Japanese-made recorder an English Flute - but never once have I said I'd never own & play such a thing? I have literally hundreds of plastic ocarinas, whoopee-whistles, fowler-calls, bird calls, cuckoo calls, ducks, owls, warblers, whizz-sirens, tabor-pipes, penny-whistles, Chinese tweeters, Swiss warblers, fart whistles, reed-horns, fog horns, pan-pipes, recorders etc. etc. - they're an integral part of my work as a storyteller, folk musician and free-improviser.

Remember, I'm not the one under scrutiny here - you are, but only because of your self-published manifesto and your constant defence and promotion of same.

* I know it was Don who first coined the phrase but I believe it was my use of it that Wavy found a particularly convenient way to smoke-screen his racism. Note if you will the use of question marks to denote up-speak, just to make our hapless Aussie Tourist / Exile feel more at home.