Thanks for that Dave H. How strange people's perceptions can be. I saw Ride On as a male song (though I have heard it sung by females unchanged) simply because of the word "gut". Run your claw along my tummy does not really fit well and my perception would be using "gut" as it being a male word more than female.

Be that as it may it is one purely of perception and choice I suppose. I am glad you answered my prime question though. So little conversion goes on in folk songs then? Maybe it's just me being relatively new to the folk scene and not being so used to women singing men's songs and vice versa without changing gender cues.

Thank you

mp