How right you are, Alan. I've seen those young girls so emphathic, not yet hitting the bodhran then. " Oh, the poor calf!" What had they to do with this song? They handn't the slightest notion of its meaning.
   ...the song is horribly callous as it stands. I can think of few who would derive comfort from its message you wrote five years ago. And how right you were then, too.
   See also my note of Jan 19, 2006.

Such is life, hard and very strong, isn't it?

greetings
Wilfried