Greetings, my friends.

I would like some help. I am putting a new band together, and the perennial problem of a good name has come up. I didn't want a folkie title (although Queer As Folk was a good 'un!) as this is a rollocky bollocky pub band, as before drink, it puts some folk off. (After drink, they boil lager in their throats, singing along). Also, I didn't want a pretentious title that sounds like we write our own songs, as that's another mass market turn off. My wife said a jokey name devalues good music, so that killed off "The Sex Slaves From Hull".

Then, in the middle of the night, it came. Maggie's Farm. I remember shuffling around London, on marches in the early 80's, trying to depose Thatcher, bleating the chorus "I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no mo'". I've half an idea Lowell George did a version, as well as Dylan, but before I drop a bollock, can anyone tell me the origins of this song, who wrote it, and who has recorded it.

Maggie, by the way, is our band's matriach, sound engineer and SO of 'the voice'.

Skipjack