I've never heard World Turned Upside-Down, but I hope it sounds better than it reads. I really doubt whether a significant thought can be expressed in badly rhyming, badly scanning doggerel. Well, perhaps it can, but for me the brbsd just gets in the way and only tends to hide any underlying deep meaning.

GeorgeH: you say in the "Distortion of history in folksong" thread to which Shambles has kindly provided a link that "...a song like "World Turned Upside Down" comes closer to the truth than many "formal" history books' coverage of those events...". But how do you know? Were you there? Have you got some special insight denied to the rest of us? I suggest that what you mean is "Leon Rosselson's left-wing ideas agree with mine." I find my ideas more akin to DrJ's than both.